William is a Founding Partner at Frontline Ventures, Frontline is a multi-strategy venture capital fund with c. €500m assets under management and over 120 investments across Europe and the US. He was the youngest Partner of a European VC fund when Frontline was founded in 2012. At Frontline he focuses on B2B early-stage investing in Europe, with a particular interest in health-tech.
After leaving university, William briefly worked at Lehman Brothers before becoming one of the founding employees of Ondra Partners, a start-up investment-banking boutique. Ondra grew from a three-person team, to have over 100 people in London, New York and Paris, and within 18 months was named top investment banking boutique globally by Euromoney. This experience made him realise his passion for rethinking an industry and led him to Co-Found Osmoda, a backend e-commerce company. At the same time, he was a Trustee for the Sandbox Network, a community of almost two thousand innovators under 30. It was through Osmoda and Sandbox that he saw the difficulties for great founders fundraising in Europe. This inspired him to join Will Prendergast and Shay Garvey to set up Frontline in 2012.
Outside of Frontline, William is a keen adventure traveller and lover of art. He is based in London with his partner Marine, who is an entrepreneur herself, and their two sons Atlas and Vivaldi.