William Lee

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Mr. William Lee is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Pilot Growth Equity. He served as Board Member at Tailwind and Webgility. He serves as Board Observer at Perthera. He served as Chairman at Velocidi. He has 20 years of experience as a visionary technology entrepreneur, operator, systems architect, and investor. His current investments include CB Insights, Counsyl, Metabiota, FirstBest Systems, and PMC. He 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. He is the creator of NavPod, Pilot Growth's Artificial Intelligence-based Automated Deal Sourcing and Workflow Engine. He currently serves on the boards of r4 Technologies, Tailwind, Velocidi, and Webgility. His other active investments in the funds include Bizzabo, CB Insights, Metabiota, and Perthera. His previous investments include Zenedge (acquired by Oracle), where he served on the board, FirstBest Systems (acquired by Guidewire), Counsyl (acquired by Myriad Genetics), CUJO AI, and PMC. He began his career at Motorola, where he led the development of mobile-based operating systems and award-winning component-based software. He was then a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of The Theory Center, where he was the visionary and architect behind the company's Enterprise JavaBeans component-based products. The Theory Center was a bootstrapped enterprise software company that was acquired by BEA Systems. He stayed on at BEA as Senior Director of Technology in BEA's WebLogic eCommerce Applications Group. He led and executed the group's technology sales strategies for worldwide markets. He was awarded two United States patents for his work on enterprise software components that ultimately became part of Oracle Fusion Middleware. Beginning in 2000, he served as a Co-Founder and Managing Director of NextStage LLC, a private investment firm. At NextStage, he brought together a network of entrepreneurs and investors with a focus on building early-stage technology companies. There, 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. He has also worked on academic research projects including, but not limited to, first-generation wearable computers for the United States military, robotics for space exploration, pre-Internet HTML, and fault-tolerant distributed multimedia encoding systems. He holds a Bachelor of Science with University Honors and Research Honors from Carnegie Mellon University in Mathematics / Computer Science and Computer Engineering. He also earned a Master's degree in Computer Science from Cornell University as a Motorola Fellowship recipient. He 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 the Andaman Sea.