Bill Poulos Net Worth 2026: General Motors Director Career

No reputable outlet has published a net worth estimate for Bill Poulos. The $76 million figure on some profile sites has no source. Poulos is a retired General Motors executive. After leaving GM in 2001, he co-founded Profits Run, a company that sells trading education and alert services. His wealth comes from that 30-plus-year GM career and from the business he has run with his son since then. Neither GM pay details nor Profits Run revenue has been made public.

What is Bill Poulos's net worth?

There is no Forbes profile, public filing or press estimate of his wealth. Earlier versions of this page called him the current head of GM's Vehicle Development Center and gave his net worth as $76 million. Both claims were wrong or unsupported. Poulos retired from GM at 54 as director of the Vehicle Development Center, and no source backs the $76 million figure. We have removed it.

What can be said is where his money comes from:

• General Motors career: about three decades, ending at director level, which usually means a salary plus a pension and retiree benefits. The amounts are not public.
• Profits Run: a financial education company he co-founded in 2001, selling trading courses, software and subscription alert services.
• Personal trading: he says he has traded stocks and futures since the 1970s.
• Books on trading and investing, sold through Amazon.

Bill Poulos's yearly earnings, income and salary

His income has never been disclosed. The yearly income of $2.5 million, monthly income of $208,000 and daily income of $6,000 listed here before had no source, and we have removed them. Profits Run is a private company, and its sales figures are not published.

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Early life and family

According to his author biography, William "Bill" Poulos was born in 1947 at Providence Hospital in Detroit. He grew up in a middle-class family proud of its Greek heritage. He became an Eagle Scout at 13, which his biography says made him the youngest in the Detroit Area Council at the time. In high school he swam competitively and graduated near the top of his class.

In a personal essay on his Fight for Hope site, Poulos describes growing up in Detroit. His family lived first in a small apartment, then a duplex, and from age 10 in a 900-square-foot brick ranch house near Rouge Park. He attended McColl elementary school, and he credits the Detroit public schools of that era with preparing him for college and his career.

The earlier claims that he was "born into a family of entrepreneurs," started a business in high school and sold a software company after college do not appear in any source we found, and have been removed.

Bill Poulos's wife

The previous version of this page gave his spouse's name as "Peter Mueller" and marked him as divorced. That was wrong. His own author biography says he married his high school sweetheart, Karen, in 1969. They met as neighborhood friends at 14 and have three sons, all now adults. One of them, Greg Poulos, is his business partner at Profits Run.

Education

Poulos studied at General Motors Institute in Flint, Michigan, now Kettering University. It was a co-op program: he alternated classes in Flint with work at the Cadillac Motor Car Division in Detroit. He earned an engineering degree and graduated in 1970. While working full time at GM, he took night classes at the University of Michigan and earned an MBA in finance. The old page described his GMI degree as a BA; his own biography calls it an engineering degree.

Professional life

General Motors (1970-2001)

GM hired Poulos after he graduated from GMI in 1970. He began at Cadillac and moved through other divisions. His biography says his work took him to Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, Brazil and Mexico. When he retired at 54, he was director of GM's Vehicle Development Center. He has described his career as helping GM build better and safer cars. His accounts give slightly different lengths for his time at the company: 30 years in one, 36 years in another.

Profits Run (2001-present)

After retiring, Poulos co-founded Profits Run, Inc. with his son Greg in 2001. He says the business started at the family's kitchen table. Bill brought the trading experience and Greg the marketing. The company sells courses and subscription services on options, stocks, forex and futures trading, including products marketed under names such as Premium Income Alert and Rapid Income Engine. Poulos also writes market commentary, and his website says Investing.com has published more than 40 of his articles.

As with any trading education business, the company's own website warns that options and stock trading carry large risks and that past results do not predict future ones. Customers should judge its products on their own terms. This page does not assess them.

Philanthropy

Through his personal website and Fight for Hope project, Poulos backs the Downtown Boxing Gym Youth Program in Detroit, an after-school program that combines tutoring and mentoring with athletics. He also supports Little Dresses for Africa, a Christian charity. In 2019 he created the Profits Run Starfish Award to honor people who help others. The first award went to Little Dresses for Africa founder Rachel O'Neill. His site also reports a donation of 1,000 masks to health care workers during COVID-19.

Age, height and weight

Born in 1947, Bill Poulos is about 78 or 79 in 2026. The earlier claim that he was 83 does not match his own published biography. His height and weight have not been published, and we have removed the figures given here before.

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How we checked this page

Independent press coverage of Poulos is limited. Most of the biographical facts here come from material he has published himself: his Amazon author page, his personal website, his Fight for Hope essay and his Investing.com contributor profile. We have attributed them to those sources. We removed the unsourced net worth, income figures, wrong current job title, wrong spouse name, age, height, weight and the empty contact section.