Bill Douglass founded Gotham Communications in 2009, drawing on his deep background in corporate and financial communications, investor relations, message development, and branding. Gotham has represented a wide variety of clients in the US, Latin America, and Europe, including private equity and venture capital firms such as Index Ventures, and leading growth-stage biotech and health-tech companies.

Bill concurrently runs Gotham Private Capital, a capital introductions and advisory firm. He holds the FINRA Uniform Securities Agent license (Series 63) and the Private Securities Offerings Representative license (Series 82) and is a Registered Representative of Stonehaven, LLC, Member FINRA/SIPC.

From 2022-2023 Bill served in an in-house management role at Hevolution Foundation, an international life sciences fund and grant-making organization with an annual budget of up to $1 Billion, running its communications department, serving on the Executive Committee and reporting directly to the CEO.

Bill has also served as a Managing Director at Spark PR; Senior Media Strategist (consulting) with M&C Saatchi Public Relations; and as Advisor, US Market for Burlington PR and Optimum Communications, both in London.

Before starting Gotham Communications, Bill held VP- and Director-level positions with IR/PR firms Brainerd Communicators and the Investor Relations Group, and in earlier years was with a boutique agency, P&F Communications. Prior to that he was with a medical non-profit, ORBIS International, spearheading eye surgery programs on-board its DC-10 aircraft, “the world’s only flying eye hospital,” in 20-plus countries.

Bill has spoken at a variety of conferences, including Reuters’ HedgeWorld, IMN’s Alpha Hedge West, the Horasis Global Meeting, and Activist Investing in Canada. He attended Boston University’s College of Communication and has a BA from the University of Houston. He has been quoted on communications strategy and related topics in The New York Times and elsewhere.

Bill won a worldwide futurist writing competition from Royal Dutch/Shell and The Economist, “The World in 2050.” Judges including Esther Dyson and Royal Dutch/Shell’s Chairman Sir Mark Moody-Stuart chose Bill’s entry over 3,000 submitted from 75 countries, awarding him the $20,000 First Prize.

Bill was a founding member of the Town of Weston, Connecticut Strategic Planning Committee and founding Chair of the town’s Communications & Marketing Subcommittee. He lives there with his wife – a practicing physician – and their two children. He brings an international perspective to his work, having worked in or visited over 70 countries.