Bill serves as the Chief Executive Officer for Shepherd Avenue Capital Acquisition Corp. He has also been a co-founder and board member of Applied Neuromorphic Systems Inc and Managing Partner of Daedalus Analytics International. He has more than 20 years of experience in innovation advisory and technology commercialization advice for early-stage startups, major multinational corporations, and the highest levels of the US government. Bill was a founding director of a federal defense conversion technology incubator program. He has deep experience in corporate finance including cross-border M&A, international joint ventures, technology licensing, particularly between the US and China. He has been cited in various articles and conducted more than two dozen television, radio, and print interviews by the Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, iFeng TV, China Business News TV, and other business outlets on various technology valuation and China business related topics. In prior capacities, Bill served in Ernst & Young’s TAS/GPS China Center of Excellence focusing on the US - China commercial & military innovation complexes and national S&T strategies. He previously spent 8 years based in China while serving as both City Leader and Country Head for a global financial advisory firm leading offices in Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong. During his tenure in China, his client engagements spanned 20 of the 23 Chinese provinces, including more than 200 cities across China. His other Southeast Asian engagements include major transactions in Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, South Korea, the Philippines, as well as Australia and New Zealand. Bill is a former member of the White House staff with the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) serving the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and in the Directorate for Technology and National Security Affairs during stints under two separate Presidential Administrations of both political parties. He has also been an Economic Fellow under Commissioner Carol Crawford at the United States International Trade Commission (USITC), and on the consulting staff of the National Research Council at the National Academy of Sciences. Bill has performed scientific research at the Applied Neural Control Lab in Cleveland, Ohio and the Department of Bioengineering at St. Thomas Hospital in London, England. Bill is also a two-time finisher of the Ironman Triathlon endurance race, and has trekked extensively throughout Asia, Africa, South America, New Zealand, and the US.