Mr. Cunningham is the President of Hallcrest Systems, Inc., a leading security and law enforcement research and consulting firm. He is internationally experienced as a police and security consultant, and he formerly served as Director of Human Resources of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.

William Cunningham is the principle author of The Hallcrest Report I: Private Security and Police in America and The Hallcrest Report II: Private Security Trends 1970-2000. He has served on the Prentice-Hall Review Board of The Human Resources Yearbook and on the Editorial Board of Security Journal.

He graduated from Michigan State University, Police Administration in Industrial Security Administration. Mr. Cunningham was selected as the 1998 recipient of the “Distinguished Achievement Award” from the International Security Management Association and has been elected a “Distinguished Fellow” by the Academy of Security Educators and Trainers.

Mr. Cunningham is a member in the American Society for Industrial Security, International Association of Chiefs of Police and earlier, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States where he served on the National Business Advisory Panel on White Collar Crime.