Throughout Bill's career, he has been integral in creating hundreds of millions of dollars of value in high technology products. He has accomplished this by leading multi-disciplinary teams through the development of at least fifty products and by having a thorough understanding of the business and when to launch the right products for any given market.

Bill's experience and intuition about the opportunity presented by a team of entrepreneurs illustrates Incubic's investment rationale; that is, a melding of his experience with the passion and vision of entrepreneurs greatly enhances their likelihood of success.

Bill has served as interim CEO for a number of portfolio companies, including Nellix Endovascular, a medical device company with a groundbreaking platform for aneurysm repair. As well, Bill was interim CEO for Grandis, the pioneer in spintronics-based semiconductor memory technology. Bill also served as the interim CEO of Greystripe, the leader in advertising-supported content distribution for mobile phones, where he continues to serve on its Board of Directors. Bill also serves as a Director on the Boards of GigaFin, Spectragenics, Nellix, and Precision Photonics. Previously, Bill served on the Board of LIGHTCONNECT until its June 2006 acquisition by Neophotonics, and was also served as a Director of Lightwave Electronics until its April 2005 acquisition by JDS Uniphase.

Prior to founding Incubic with Milton Chang, Bill built and led the engineering teams that developed Spectra-Physics Lasers (SPL) diode-pumped solid-state and fiber laser products.

He was the Director of Engineering and Advanced Research in SPL's OEM Business Unit, from 1993 until 1999. The success of his leadership and the contribution of this business allowed SPL's transformation into "The Solid State Laser Company" and its successful IPO in 1997 (SPLI). Bill's group supported OEM customers in many markets with turn-key laser systems of ultra-high performance and reliability for 24/7 applications, like semiconductor memory repair, RF circuit trimming, rapid prototyping, and telecommunications. Among many successful products, he invented the multiple award-winning "Millennia", one of the most successful laser products in SPL history. Bill directed the company's IP strategy in solid-state lasers. These products still provide a substantial part of SPL's >$200M annual revenue (now part of Newport Corporation, NEWP).

From 1990 to 1993 at the Carl Zeiss Laser Technology Center, a Zeiss-funded US-based start-up business, he managed development and gained FDA clearance for medical devices including new surgical laser products and handpieces for arthroscopy and orthopedics.

Bill graduated from Brown University with a Sc.B. from the EE Honors Program and earned his Ph.D. degree from Princeton University in the EE Electronic Materials and Devices Program. He has had over twenty U.S. patents issued, with their foreign counterparts either issued or pending. Earlier in his career he authored many technical papers and conference presentations, including top-ranked papers at the CLEO conferences.