Bill Bartmann is the president and CEO of BillionaireU.com, an online business educational resource. Bartmann has created seven successful businesses in seven different industries, including Commercial Financial Services, a $3.5-billion, 3,900-employee international company. During 1985 to 1998 Bartmann purchased $4.5 million in defaulted loans with a face value of $14 billion from 800 failed banks during the last FDIC crisis. Bartmann has been named National Entrepreneur of the Year by NASDAQ, USA Today, Merrill Lynch, and the Kauffman Foundation. One of his companies has been named in Inc. magazine's 500 Fastest-Growing Companies in America four years in a row. He has been awarded a permanent place in the Smithsonian Institute's Museum of American History and has also been awarded the American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award for being one of the Outstanding Achievers of the 20th Century.