Bill Douglass founded Gotham Communications in 2010, 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, Europe, and Israel, including asset management firms with AUM ranging from $50 million to over $3 billion; technology startups such as i.TV (backed by Union Square Ventures); fintech startups such as Sliced Investing (backed by Khosla Ventures); and leading healthtech and biotechnology companies, both public and private. 

Bill concurrently runs Gotham Private Capital, a capital introductions and advisory firm that he founded in 2019. He holds the FINRA Uniform Securities Agent license (Series 63) and the Private Securities Offerings Representative license (Series 82) through Finalis Securities, LLC, a registered broker-dealer.

Bill has also served as Senior Media Strategist (consulting) with M&C Saatchi Public Relations, as a Managing Director of the consultant network at Spark PR, and as Advisor, US Market for Burlington PR in London. Before starting Gotham, 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, spearheading eye surgery programs on-board the organization’s DC-10 aircraft, “the world’s only flying eye hospital,” in 20-plus countries.

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

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 young children. He brings an international perspective to his work, having worked in or visited nearly 70 countries.

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 then-Chairman Sir Mark Moody-Stuart chose Bill’s entry over 3,000 submitted from 75 countries, awarding him the $20,000 First Prize.