Fiore Industries Inc. - CEO Biography

Bill Miera was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Bill put himself through college and received a Bachelor’s degree with distinction in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s in Robotics from the University of New Mexico. He also holds a Certificate in Management from UNM’s Robert O. Anderson School of Management. Bill is married with four children -- two of whom are attending college.

Bill’s wonderful wife Emily has supported his dream of Fiore Industries Inc. from its inception, even when he did not believe it would become a reality. He worked for Rockwell International for nine years and started the Company with retirement money he had saved during that time. In addition he signed over his house and anything else of value to the bank. It took nine months before he was able to start drawing an actual paycheck from the Company and the first payroll was made with cash advances on all of his personal credit cards.

Bill learned a strong work ethic from his father who would take two weeks vacation from his mail carrier position and work at the State Fair. This extra money was used to buy his eight children clothes for the new school year. He also first learned about teamwork with his parents and siblings cleaning doctors’ offices together at night. His parents sacrificed and saved for years so that the children could go to parochial school. He started college only because his mother insisted. Among his brothers and sisters are nurses, marketers, principals and teachers.

Bill believes strongly in giving back to his community. While in college he provided unpaid tutoring and worked with the Hispanic Engineering Organization to raise scholarship money, perform middle-school visits and other activities to encourage children to go to college. Bill was a member in good standing of Pi Tau Sigma, an academic society for outstanding scholarship. As a collateral responsibility, under professor Bill Gross he was a committee member of the DaVince committee. This organization was chartered to bring artwork into the School of Engineering for an annual display. Since college he helped found, and is a past president of the New Mexico Chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (a scholarship raising organization). Bill Miera has twice received the President’s Award from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers for his contributions to the Hispanic community in assisting young people to enter into and become successful in the fields of science and engineering. He has also worked with MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, Science, Achievement); he is a board member of the New Mexico 8(a) Association; and he contributes to and works with several local charities. Under Bill’s leadership, Fiore Industries Inc. established a formal community action committee that oversees activities such as charitable contribution to organizations including the New Mexico Special Olympics, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, UNICEF, United Way, Science Fair judging and helping at UNM’s Engineering Day.

Bill has instilled his values of quality, customer focus, continuous self-analysis, teamwork and ethics into the Company. Bill has made Fiore’s motto: “Making Technology Serve Mankind.”