Bill Weiland Net Worth 2026: Presence Marketing Founder

No reputable outlet has published an estimate of Bill Weiland's net worth. The $32 million figure and the income table that appeared on this page before had no source, so we have removed them. The public record does show serious wealth: Weiland founded Presence Marketing in 1990 and built it into what trade press calls the largest independent natural and organic food brokerage in the United States, sold a minority stake to private equity in 2016, saw the company bought by PLTFRM in 2025, and paid a town-record $15.4 million for a South Florida estate in 2022.

What is Bill Weiland's net worth?

Presence Marketing was private, and neither the 2016 minority sale nor the 2025 sale to PLTFRM came with a published price. Without those numbers, there is no reliable way to put a figure on his stake. The property he has bought gives a sense of scale, since the two South Florida purchases reported by The Real Deal alone total about $22 million, but a home's price does not tell you what someone owns after debts.

We therefore do not show a net worth figure. Treat any number you see elsewhere, including the $32 million once shown here, as a guess.

Where his money comes from

• Presence Marketing. Weiland co-founded the brokerage with Christine Tzumas in January 1990, after about 12 years in natural products retail and sales jobs. Brokers like Presence earn commissions for getting brands onto store shelves and managing their retail sales. The company says it grew from a small Midwest firm to a national business with more than 400 employees, partly by buying other brokerages, according to Nosh.
• Selling Presence. Nosh reported that he sold a minority stake to a private equity firm in 2016 and that PLTFRM, a sales and marketing group founded by Noah Bremen, bought Presence in early 2025. The price was not disclosed.
• Brand investments. Nosh describes him as a frequent investor in natural products companies. VC Sheet lists him as co-founder and managing partner of BIGR Ventures, a growth fund for natural and organic consumer brands that writes checks of about $500,000 to $3 million and is held within Vestar Capital Partners' portfolio.

Career and the brands Presence helped launch

Presence became known as an incubator for natural-channel brands. Nosh names Siete, Simple Mills, Clif, Vital Farms, Suja and Zico among the brands it helped grow, and Naturally Chicago adds Califia and Vital Proteins. Naturally Chicago recounts that Weiland signed Siete when it was still a small family startup, about a decade before PepsiCo agreed in 2024 to buy Siete Foods for $1.2 billion. Weiland was not a seller in that deal; the story shows his eye for brands, not his own payout.

Founders, investors and retailers regularly visited his large estate in the Chicago suburbs, which some in the industry nicknamed the "Billagio," to go over sales data, according to Nosh. He has spoken at BevNET Live events on beverage and natural food trends in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

Recognition

• Forbes named him one of its "Top 25 Most Influential Kingmakers" in consumer and retail companies, according to his company biography.
• New Hope inducted him into its Hall of Legends for contributions to the natural products industry.
• Naturally Chicago honored him at its Founders' Gala in October 2024.

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Houses and property

The Real Deal reported that an LLC tied to Weiland paid about $1.8 million for a 2-acre lot at AKAI Estates and $13.7 million more for the planned house: three stories, about 16,000 square feet, six bedrooms, a guest house, a basketball court and a pool of nearly 5,000 square feet. The same report gave his home base as South Barrington, Illinois.

Recent changes (2025 to 2026)

The PLTFRM deal, announced in early 2025 just before Natural Products Expo West, ended his run as an owner-operator. Nosh now refers to him as Presence's founder and former CEO, although the Presence website still lists him as CEO. His current public focus is investing through BIGR Ventures.

Family

The earlier version of this page named a wife and gave his age, height and weight, and at one point confused him with a different person, Bill Clerico. None of those details had a source, and we have removed them.

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How this page was checked

We used the Presence Marketing website, Nosh (BevNET), Naturally Chicago, The Real Deal and VC Sheet. The biggest unknown is what he received for Presence; if a price is ever reported, a credible estimate of his wealth could follow.