Bill Reilly brings decades of experience in environmentally and economically sound business practices to AgraQuest. The Architect for the Clean Air Act Amendments in 1990, Reilly served as the head of the EPA from 1989-1993.

Reilly is a Senior Advisor to Texas Pacific Group's TPG Growth, an international investment partnership. He was a founding partner of Aqua International Partners, a private equity fund dedicated to investing in companies engaged in water and renewable energy. Reilly served as the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1989-1993), President of the World Wildlife Fund (1985-1989), President of The Conservation Foundation (1973-1989) and past Chairman of the American Farmland Trust. He was head of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Earth Summit at Rio in 1992. Also in 1992, he was the primary mover behind the Montreal Protocol to phase out the global use of Methyl Bromide.

Reilly is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of the World Wildlife Fund, Co-Chair of the National Commission on Energy Policy, Chair of the Advisory Board for the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, Chair of the San Francisco Mayor's Clean Tech Advisory Council and a Director of DuPont, the Packard Foundation and the National Geographic Society,. He holds a B.A. degree from Yale, J.D. from Harvard and M.S. in Urban Planning from Columbia University.

Reilly was a crony of Carla A. Hills, the Bush administration's chief trade negotiator, since the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements in 1976.

Reilly was EPA Administrator from Feb. 6, 1989, to Jan. 20, 1993. From 1972 to 1973, he headed a task force on land use and urban growth, chaired by Laurance S. Rockefeller.

Reilly pronounced his blessing upon the environmental provisions of NAFTA, as negotiated by Hills (Statement on the North American Free Trade Act, by William K. Reilly. Aug. 13, 1992.)

Reilly statement on the EPA ETS Report, Jan. 7, 1993.

There is not a word in this review about the report for which Reilly's regime is the most famous: "Counting On Science at EPA. William Reilly is trying to give science a bigger role in EPA policy and wants to focus on the worst environmental problems, not just the most visible." By Leslie Roberts. Science 1990 Aug. 10;249:616-618.

Reilly has been a director of E.I. DuPont de Nemours since 1993. Edgar M. Bronfman and Charles R. Bronfman were directors from 1981 to 1995, and Edgar M. Bronfman Jr. was a director from 1991 to 1995. Edgar Sr.'s fellow Salk Institute trustee, Andrew F. Brimmer, was a director from 1974 to 1997.

Reilly and Cummins Engine Co. director Franklin A. Thomas have been directors of Conoco Inc. (which is controlled by DuPont) since 1998.

Reilly has been a director of Royal Caribbean Cruises Inc. since 1998. He received $300,000 from the company for environmental consulting services in 2002.

Reilly has been a director of Ionics since 2000.