William Lee

BIO

William Lee is a Co-Founder Managing Director of Pilot Growth Equity and is based in San Francisco. Will has been creating software for 32 years and investing in technology companies for 22 years. He is a visionary technology entrepreneur operator systems architect and investor. Will currently serves on the boards of r4 Tailwind Velocidi and Webgility and was on the board of Zenedge acquired by Oracle. His other active investments in the fund include CB Insights Metabiota and Perthera. His previous investments include Counsyl acquired by Myriad CUJO acquired by Comcast FirstBest Systems acquired by Guidewire and PMC. Will began his career at Motorola where he led the development of mobile-based operating systems. Will was then a Co-Founder CTO of The Theory Center where he was the visionary and architect behind the companys Enterprise JavaBeans products. The Theory Center was a bootstrapped enterprise software company that was acquired by BEA Systems. Will stayed on at BEA as Senior Director of Technology in the WebLogic eCommerce Applications Group. He led and executed the groups technology sales strategies for worldwide markets. He was awarded 2 US patents on enterprise software. In 2000 Will served as a Co-Founder Managing Director of NextStage LLC a private investment firm. He brought together a network of entrepreneurs and investors with a focus on building technology companies. He seed funded and was a Co-Founder of FirstBest Systems in 2006 acquired by Guidewire where he initially lead Business Development responsible for corporate strategy finance and business partnerships. Will holds a Bachelor with University Honors and Research Honors from Carnegie Mellon in Math Computer Science and Computer Engineering. He also earned a Masters in Computer Science from Cornell as a Motorola Fellowship recipient. Will is an avid sailor and has captained in the North Sea Mediterranean Adriatic Sea Caribbean Atlantic Sea of Cortez South Pacific Australia New Zealand and Andaman Sea.