Bill Wong is the Founder and Managing Partner of Panthera Advisors, a Hong Kong based consulting firm that advises asset management and family offices on fund structuring, operational, regulatory, accounting, audit and tax compliance matters.  He draws his expertise from a wealth of experience in the asset management and funds sector, having spent over fifteen years in large institutional hedge funds. 

He was one of seven founding members of Asia Research and Capital Management Ltd. (“ARCM”), a HK based fund management business launched in 2012 as a spin-off from Perry Capital.  ARCM manages a multi-asset class platform with AUM of over US$3 billion, investing primarily in credit and equity securities in multiple jurisdictions across the capital structure.  Alongside his partner of business development, they jointly created fund formation documents, DDQ, and a full suite of compliance manuals. Bill was intimately involved in managing every aspect of the non-investment side of the business, including Fund/manager audit, fund administration, investor communications, regulatory compliance, IT and accounting functions.

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Between 2006 and 2012, Bill was the Financial Controller at Perry Capital Asia, the Hong Kong sub-advisor to New York headquartered US$14 billion hedge fund.  He served as the compliance officer of a licensed corporation registered with the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission.  He was primarily involved with tax structuring, documentation and funding of private transactions.  He oversaw the financial operations function and provided trade support to traders in Hong Kong.  Bill was also in charge of all legal, administrative, HR and accounting functions for the entire office.

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Bill spent the early part of his career in New York in several accounting roles.  Between 2003 and 2006, he was the manager of SEC reporting at Bristol-Myers Squibb, a Fortune 100 pharmaceutical company headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey.  Prior to that, Bill spent the first eight years of his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, initially in audit and then in their Global Capital Markets Group, providing strategic advice to international clients looking to raise new equity or debt in the US, including conversion of financial statements from local GAAP to US GAAP, SEC registration process and obtaining listing approval.

Bill graduated from Baruch College, City University of New York, with an undergraduate degree in Business Administration, majoring in Accounting in 1996, and he obtained an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University in 2005.