Team

As a Managing Director of the Foundation, Bill plays a lead role in sourcing new investments, with an emphasis on DRK’s international portfolio, and working with the leadership of those organizations as an operating partner and board member as they grow to build capacity and to achieve their maximum impact. As a member of the Foundation’s senior leadership team, Bill also helps to execute the Foundation’s strategy and goals and contributes to its thought leadership and external outreach. Bill currently serves on the board of DRK portfolio organizations Amani Global Works and SmartStart, and has served on the boards of BarefootLaw, Cowtribe, Food for Education, MaTontine, Numida, OceanMind, Pollinate Group, The Nudge Foundation, SaveLIFE Foundation, and VIA Global Health.

Bill is a physician, entrepreneur, and leader in global health, whose professional work has spanned technology development, public policy, and innovative business models to deliver health care and other goods and services to marginalized populations. At Harvard Medical School, Bill launched research programs on diagnostics and operational research in global health, and left Harvard to become the Chief Medical Officer of the William J. Clinton Foundation, where he helped broker pricing agreements of HIV drugs and diagnostic tests between African and Asian governments and the major suppliers. He was the founding CEO of Daktari Diagnostics, a for-profit social venture focused on the diagnosis of the diseases of poverty, and served as the Chief Medical Officer and CEO for the Foundation for Innovative Diagnostics (FIND), a public-private partnership for global health based in Geneva, Switzerland. He has served as an advisor to the World Health Organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and more than a dozen national governments on health care delivery, diagnostic testing, and pandemic response. He has also advised and mentored numerous start-up for-profit and not-for-profit enterprises focused on access to justice, economic opportunity, education, and health, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa and India.

Bill is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale University School of Medicine. He trained in infectious disease medicine at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, where he served as chief medical resident.