Michael Eilts, President and CEO of Weather Decision Technologies, Inc. (WDT) received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Meteorology and an MBA from the University of Oklahoma. He is also a Harvard Senior Executive Fellow. Before founding WDT in April, 2000, Mike worked at the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) for 18 years, the last 7 as the Assistant Director. While at NSSL, Mike managed a Division that grew from 20 people to 100 people when he left in 2000. Mike has written over 75 papers in meteorological journals and conference proceedings and is internationally recognized for his knowledge of Doppler radar and its application to precipitation estimation and hydrology, severe weather warning and aviation hazard detection and prediction.

Mr. Eilts and four others founded Weather Decision Technologies in 1999 in Norman, Oklahoma. The founders of WDT all came from meteorological research organizations in Norman and we continue to maintain relationships with these research organizations to extract new technologies from them. Based upon these technologies, WDT creates unique weather content that we wholesale to other weather companies and media companies in the United States. WDT customers in the U.S. are 13 of the 15 largest weather companies, Fox Interactive Media, Google, plus many large organizations that we build custom solutions for. Internationally WDT sells custom systems to foreign governments, like National Weather Service's and airports. We have recently signed a contract to install a large Aviation Weather System for Dubai Airport. We have also installed systems in many other countries including Paraguay, Italy, Brunei, Korea, Thailand, Greece, Maldives and Taiwan. WDT has 40 employees and was honored as an Inc. 500 company in 2004 and an Inc. 5,000 company in 2007.