Bill has over 35 years of experience in capital markets including 28 with Citi. From 2007 to 2021 he was Head of Market Infrastructure and FinTech Investments for Citi Global Markets.
He managed a portfolio with a team of six people across New York, Singapore and London.
The portfolio’s investment focus is on early and growth stage strategic investments in data and analytics, execution venues, trade processing, clearing, settlement, connectivity, communication and high performance computing companies. Bill served as a director on the boards of Tradeweb and Markit Group, (now IHS Markit), for seven years prior to those companies going
public. Other board directorships included Ipreo, The Clearing Corporation, (now ICE CDS Clearing), OTC Derivnet (LCH Swapclear), FX Global Clear, Symphony and QC Ware. During his tenure the team made investments in blockchain-based tech companies Digital Asset Holdings, Axoni, Symbiont, R3 and BondEValue.
Bill started his career in the currency options trading pit on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange yelling and screaming for a couple of years before moving ‘upstairs’ to trade in the OTC markets in Paris and New York. He came into Citi as an options trader before moving to San Francisco to help build a sales desk covering institutional investors in the early 90’s. Being in the Bay Area in the 90’s it was impossible not to get an understanding of how technology was going to fundamentally change the nature of banking and capital markets, so he moved back to New York in 2000 in order to get involved in the formation and development of Citi’s G-10 FX e- commerce business. He gained deep experience in product development and distribution before eventually taking over as global head of the business in 2005.
Bill retired from Citi in mid-2021 to move west to Salt Lake City with his wife to enjoy the skiing and hiking in the Wasatch mountains and is selectively advising young companies that can benefit from his experience. He is currently a Board Advisor to BondEValue.
