William is Managing Director of Orbit Startups the first and longest running startup program in Asia and General Partner of SOSV the #1 most active early stage venture capital investor in the world with US$1.5bn in assets under management. Orbit's focus is investing in startups using technology to have an impact on en digitizingsustainabilityh and economic and industrial independence including ecommerce, fintech, travel, media, health, education, and logistics across emerging and frontier markets Southeast and South Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas. Orbit provides hands-on support for cross border expansion, user acquisition, sales, partnerships, and fundraising. Orbit's ecosystem has helped its startups scale to 220m monthly active users. William joined Orbit from SingTel Innov8 Ventures where he was a founding Managing Director. Prior to that William was a Partner at Softbank China & India Holdings, a VC backed by Softbank and Cisco, leading investments in Greater China and South East Asia. William started his career in equity research most recently with Deutsche Bank where he was a top ranked analyst for Internet and Software in Asia and worked on the IPOs for Alibaba, Kingsoft, eLong (Expedia), OnMobile, Rediff and Infoedge Naukri.

In 2005, he was ranked #3 stock picker in Hong Kong/China and #1 for Technology, Media and Telecom by Thomson Reuters Starmine. In 2006 he was ranked #3 equity research analyst in Asia for Software and IT Services by Institutional Investor Magazine for his work on Internet. William has done over 300 early stage investments including Bitmex in blockchain, UShopal in ecommerce, Snapask in edtech, italki in edtech, Carota in mobility, Flickstree in media, ELSA Speak in edtech, Tappytoon in media, Coutloot in ecommerce, and Dastgyr in fintech. He currently is a Director or Observer on the boards of Marketforce, FreeD Group, Supplynote, Scantrust, Boost Capital, Pandabus, Fleksy, Goama, italki, and SRT as well as Blair Academy. He holds a BA from Bowdoin College.