Bill is Founder and CEO of BlockGen Corp, a holding company with subsidiaries LoanPASS and Block+Sovereign. Bill started his career in 1990 as a mortgage banking analyst for TCW in Los Angeles, California where he worked for nine years. His career progressed over the following 30 years which included senior positions at Merrill Lynch as their lead mortgage banking analyst and Arco Investments as a portfolio manager. Bill left the investment business in 1999 to lead an Internet based mortgage technology start-up which he sold in 2001. Bill returned to the investment business and joined JAM Partners as Director of Research in 2004 where he helped build one of the industry’s best performing financial services hedge funds. Bill and his partner were vocal critics of the mortgage industry in 2006 and were well positioned for the ensuing credit crisis which led to his co-founding JAM’s private equity business. JAM Partners managed roughly $800M in public, private and distressed assets during his ten years at the company. Bill graduated with a finance, real estate and law degree from California Polytechnic University in Pomona, California. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and avid classical guitarist.