Meet The Team

Founding Partner & CEO

William Woodruff

Bill Woodruff is our chairman and oversees Investment Banking and Asset Management. Mr. Woodruff’s career has encompassed sell-side research, sales, trading, investment banking, most recently buy-side equity research and Read more...

Founding Partner

Paul Essi

Paul Essi is a seasoned and universally respected research analyst, money manager and stock picker with over forty years of investment experience. Read more...

Chief Technology Officer

Jay Hilbert

Mr. Hilbert has recently joined WKW as a Partner and subject matter expert covering Wireless, Telco and Cloud. Hilbert has been a global sales leader for the past 25 years working for leading companies such read more...

Executive Advisory Board

Jim West

Jim West served as the Senior Vice President of the Mission Engineering and Resilience Sector at Amentum. He was responsible for engineering and technical services for defense and security sensors and systems; Read more...

Bob Gardner

Mr. Gardner serves as an Executive Advisor for WKW. Bob is a widely recognized leader in the research, product development, operations concerning emerging/disruptive technologies. Read more...

Stan Woodward

Mr. Woodward currently sits on the board of, and is a seed investor in, IPTalons which is a research and IP protection platform and managed service for Corporations, Universities and Government R&D agencies.