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William Lilley III William Lilley III, chairman and co-founder of iMapData, is a former economic historian who was a senior corporate official of CBS Inc, the media company in New York. He has served as Director of the U.S. Council on Wage and Price Stability and as Staff Director of the Budget Committee for the U.S. House of Representatives. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University, taught at Yale, and has written widely on how government policies effect local economic activity, on the economics of the professional sports business and on the socio-economic makeup of U.S. state and local political constituencies. Laurence J. DeFrancoPresident, Co-founder (LDeFranco@iMapData.com) Laurence J. DeFranco, president and co-founder of iMapData, is an expert in the new field of geo-economics that merges the disciplines of economics, geography and computer science. He has written, testified and spoken widely on the effects of economic, regulatory, and legislative policy on businesses-especially in a geographic context. Previously he headed Program Flow, Inc., a computer software, research and consulting firm he founded. Before that, he worked for CBS Inc. as head of the New Technologies Task Force. *Additional publications by Lilley and DeFranco include: The Economic Impact of the European Grands Prix (Brussels: FIA, 1999); The Sports That Make Communities Rich: An Inquiry into the Economics of Professional Sports, published by the American Coalition for Sports Sponsorship (1997); Impact of Retail Taxes on the Illinois-Indiana Border, published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (1997), and The Case of the Transient Taxpayer: How Tax-Driven Price Differentials for Commodity Goods Can Create Improbable Markets, published by the Journal of Business Economics (1998).
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Award-Winning Publications
Lilley and DeFranco authored four award-winning books on U.S. state legislative government and demographics, all published by Congressional Quarterly Books in Washington, D.C.*
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