William Steinberg has always gravitated toward environments that reward curiosity, structure, and disciplined thinking. Raised in a Marine Corps family, with a father who served nearly thirty-five years as a pilot, he experienced constant relocation and exposure to new perspectives. Those early years built adaptability and a fascination with systems and mechanics. Alongside academics, he developed an interest in music and sports, learning to play guitar and playing competitive high school basketball. William earned his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Old Dominion University, where classroom theory was reinforced by practical experimentation. A six-month internship at NASA’s Langley Research Center proved formative, as he contributed to Project HALOE, supporting space shuttle missions that gathered solar data. He later completed a Master’s degree at California State University, Northridge, earning Tau Beta Pi recognition and building strong expertise in embedded systems, hardware design, and signal processing. He began his engineering career in California at McDonnell Douglas, supporting major aircraft programs, including the MD-80, MD-11, and C-17. His responsibilities included developing embedded firmware, operating system software, and airborne data-acquisition tools, all requiring precise coding and extensive testing. He later joined Sonatech in Santa Barbara, where he designed data-acquisition controllers and embedded software for underwater acoustic tracking systems used in both military and commercial applications. In January 1994, William relocated to New York City to join Morgan Stanley, marking his transition into financial technology. Over the following decades, he worked on complex trading platforms, real-time data dissemination systems, and infrastructure supporting global trading desks. He delivered firmwide utilities, reengineered booking and trading systems, and led teams responsible for application management, operational monitoring, and distributed process control. William joined Goldman Sachs in 2008, spending more than 14 years supporting equities market-making and quantitative trading as Vice President, William Steinberg. His work spanned futures, ETFs, desk-level risk, and exchange connectivity. He returned to Morgan Stanley in 2023 as an Executive Director overseeing global C++ risk development. Outside work, he supports mentorship, charitable causes, music, sports, travel, and lifelong learning.