Bill is a thirty-five-year financial markets industry professional and co-founder of Silver Spike Capital, an SEC-registered private credit manager focused on the cannabis industry. 

Before Silver Spike, he was President of Pantera Capital Management in Menlo Park, California—one of the longest-established Blockchain investment managers focused on digital currencies, applications, and related companies. 

From 1998 to 2016, Bill led several institutional sales initiatives in the securities and asset & wealth management divisions at Deutsche Bank. He started his career as a corporate banker at The Chase Manhattan Bank—with postings in Brazil, London, and New York—where he advised multinational corporations on cross-border funding and domestic treasury matters for their Latin American operations.

From 1993 to 1998, he started and managed the ING Barings emerging markets institutional debt sales team. He covered clients and often traveled to Latin America, Europe, and Asia to structure, price, and pre-market many of the firm’s capital markets transactions.

Bill earned a B.A. in International Business Finance from George Washington University. He is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA) Member and resides in New York City.