Leadership
Bill Snyder, Managing Partner
Bill currently serves within the executive team at DAI and leads client engagements across multiple industries. He brings more than 20+ years of experience in innovation advisory, technology strategy, and international corporate finance involving early-stage startups, major multinational corporations, and the highest levels of the US government.
In addition to currently serving as a co-founding Board Member at Applied Neuromorphic Systems, Bill previously was a founding director of a IS based defense-conversion technology incubator and has served on the advisory boards of multiple business incubator programs within China.
In prior capacities, Bill spent 5 years as a Managing Director with the Corporate Finance group at Ernst &Young leading teams within the EY China Center of Excellence and the Innovation & Disruption Diligence practice areas. At the international level, Bill spent 8 years based in China while serving as both City Leader and Country Head for a global financial advisory firm leading offices in Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong. During his tenure in China, his client engagements spanned 20 of the 23 Chinese provinces, including more than 200 cities across China. His other Southeast Asian engagements include major transactions in Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, South Korea, the Philippines, as well as Australia and New Zealand.
Bill is a former member of the White House staff with the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) serving the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and in the Directorate for Technology and National Security Affairs during stints under two separate Presidential Administrations of both political parties. He has also been an Economic Fellow under Commissioner Carol T. Crawford at the United States International Trade Commission (USITC), and on the consulting staff of the National Research Council at the National Academy of Sciences. Bill has performed scientific research at the Applied Neural Control Lab in Cleveland, Ohio and the Department of Bioengineering at St. Thomas Hospital in London, England.
He has been cited in various articles and conducted more than two dozen television, radio, and print interviews by the Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, iFeng TV, China Business News TV, and other business outlets on various technology valuation and China business related topics. He has been a member of the News Certified Exchange (NCE) network of media certified experts on China business since 2010.
Bill is also a two-time finisher of the Ironman Triathlon endurance race, and has trekked extensively throughout Asia, Africa, South America, New Zealand, and the US.
