Fulbright Specialist | Founding General Partner, Bay Street Hospitality VCC | 📍 Singapore
"勇者無敵" — Galatians 2:20
Institutionalizing hospitality investing through a proprietary quantamental framework — where every deal is scored, every decision is defendable, and portfolios compound with clarity.
Bay Street Hospitality applies a proprietary quantamental framework to source, score, and select hospitality investments across private and public markets — bridging the rigor of institutional finance with the nuance of hospitality operations.
The Framework
Systematically evaluate private and public hospitality opportunities side-by-side
Sequential, risk-first pipeline: NPV → IRR → AHA → BAS → LSD → BMRI → IP → Bay Score → IC Decision
Liquidity and volatility gates must clear before capital deployment
Private assets anchored to public comps and institutional benchmarks
Why It Works
Academically recognized metrics: Bay Score, AHA, BAS, LSD
Process discipline enforced at every step
Structures that protect downside while surfacing arbitrage across liquidity, capital structure, FX, cycle, operator, policy, information, and term
Quantamental Pipeline
How Every Deal Gets Scored
The Bay Street quantamental pipeline is a sequential, risk-first decision engine. Each gate must be cleared before capital is deployed — ensuring every decision is defensible and every portfolio position is earned.
This structured pipeline eliminates emotional decision-making and enforces institutional discipline at every stage — from initial screening through final investment committee approval.
Recognition & Platform
Awards & Recognition
🏆 Entrepreneur of the Year
NAACP 2023 — Recognized for visionary leadership and institutional innovation in investment management.
🥇 #1 Investment Firm Under $5B
AAAA 2023 — Top-ranked firm for performance, process, and portfolio construction discipline.
📊 Investopedia Top 100
Financial Advisors 2021–2023 — Three consecutive years among the most influential financial voices.
$5B
Target Fund II
Targeting institutional LPs, family offices, sovereigns, and operators
40+
Equity Research Reports
Authored since 2018 across hospitality public and private markets
2025
Fulbright Specialist
U.S. Department of State / World Learning designation
Career Timeline
Professional Experience
1
2025 – Present | The Fulbright Program
Specialist Roster — Global U.S. Department of State / World Learning designation. Delivering applied expertise to host institutions globally, supporting institutional strategy, leadership capacity, and cross-border collaboration.
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2018 – Present | Bay Street Hospitality VCC
Founding General Partner — Singapore Institutional investment platform applying a proprietary quantamental framework. Bay Street Terminal: Bloomberg-style decision engine. $5B Target Fund II. 40+ authored equity research reports.
3
2020 – 2022 | NASP Northern California
President — San Francisco, CA Led regional strategy, member engagement, and industry programming across the Bay Area investment and financial services ecosystem.
4
2015 – 2018 | MotiveMetrics
Enterprise Consultant — Palo Alto, CA Applied AI platform using NLP and psychographic modeling. Average contract value ~$360K ARR. Enterprise partners: Adidas, TechStyle, Caesars Entertainment, Gilt, Sears, ConAgra Brands.
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2008 – 2018 | Telemarketing Philippines
Founder & CEO — Davao, Philippines BPO specializing in high-performance marketing platforms. Played a key role in acquiring ~$500M in 401(k) AUM. Partners: New York Life, AIA Singapore, Sprint, Mass Mutual, MetLife.
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2009 – 2012 | ProFounder
Community Coordinator — Atlanta, GA Early-stage crowdfunding platform by Jessica Jackley (founder of Kiva.org). Capital formation, founder onboarding, and investor relations.
Education
Academic Foundation
1
Cornell — Hotel Real Estate & Asset Management
Peter & Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration (2023–2024)
2
Wharton School — Investment Management
Aresty Institute, The Wharton School (2019–2021)
3
Stanford Engineering — Venture Capital
Venture Capital Unlocked: Silicon Valley (2023)
4
CFA Institute — Sustainable Investing
Sustainable Investing Certificate (2026)
5
VC Include — Diversity in Alternatives
Cohort 3, Diversity in Alternative Investments (2023)
Credentials
Credentials & Affiliations
Professional Designations
Accredited Investment Fiduciary® (AIF®)
Accredited Investment Fiduciary Analyst® (AIFA®)
Governing Sustainable Finance: Energy Economics, Environment, and Policy
Wharton Certified Investment Management Analyst Program
Leadership Palo Alto, Class of 2020
Civic & Board Roles
Trustee — Association of Asian American Investment Managers (2020–Present)
Fund Development — 100 Black Men of the Bay Area (2019–Present)
Board & Treasurer roles across civic, energy, education, and investment institutions
Cornell University | Nanoscale Systems Scholarship
The Military Order of the World Wars Award
Junior Civitan Scholarship Recipient
Research & Publications
Intellectual Capital
40+ equity research reports authored since 2018. Selected flagship publications shaping the field of quantamental hospitality investing:
Benchmarking Alpha
Public Market Signals & Private Market Timing — Bridging public market intelligence with private deal timing for superior entry and exit discipline.
Portfolio Engineering
Optimizing Hospitality Allocations Across Beta, Liquidity, and Alpha — A systematic approach to constructing resilient hospitality portfolios.
Quantamental Risk
Measuring Illiquidity, Volatility, & Mispricing in Hospitality — Proprietary risk metrics for an asset class historically underserved by institutional frameworks.
Bay Street Hospitality Index (BSHI)
Strategy Architecture & Regional Adaptations — The definitive benchmark for hospitality investment performance across global markets.
Optimization Engine & Quantitative Design
The architectural blueprint for the Bay Street Terminal — a Bloomberg-style decision engine purpose-built for hospitality deal scoring.
Patents (16 total — Hotel-Integrated Wellness): Advanced Toothbrush & Charging Pad with Magnetic Levitation, Advanced Oral Hygiene Force Regulation and Technique Improvement Apparatus, Advanced Battery Systems and Related Sensor Integration — underpinning the future of hotel-integrated wellness technology.
Beyond the Portfolio
The Whole Person
Intellectual curiosity, physical discipline, and creative exploration define William's life beyond the terminal.
Audible Devotee
500+ titles consumed — spanning finance, philosophy, history, and strategy. Continuous learning is a non-negotiable discipline.
Surfing
Trifecta Singapore — finding clarity and balance in the ocean. The discipline of reading waves mirrors the discipline of reading markets.
Chess
Chess.com: huiosforever — strategic thinking, pattern recognition, and long-horizon planning practiced daily on the board.
Wellness Innovation
16 patents underpinning the future of hotel-integrated wellness — where personal health philosophy meets institutional hospitality design.
Contact
Ready to Explore Structured Hospitality Exposure?
Bay Street Hospitality is actively engaging institutional LPs, family offices, sovereign wealth funds, and strategic operators for Fund II. Every conversation begins with a framework — and every framework begins with a question worth asking.
Institutional investment platform applying a proprietary quantamental framework to hospitality investing across private and public markets — globally recognized, academically validated, and built for the next generation of institutional capital.