William Elkus Email & Phone Number

William Elkus is a Member and Board Advisor at Park City Angels based in Park City, Utah, United States, North America. Bill Elkus founded Clearstone Venture Partners in 1997 and has been a Managing Member of its General Partners since their inception. Bill was recognized as one of the top 50 to 100 venture capitalists in the US by Forbes Magazine in its annual Midas List on three occasions. Clearstone Fund I was the #1 fund out of about 700 funds listed by CalPERS in its 2011 IRR list. Bill's past board and observer roles include United Online/NetZero, Overture (acquired by Yahoo! in 2003), PayPal.com (acquired by eBay in 2002), The Chronicle Publishing Company (The San Francisco Chronicle and KRON television), Cooking.com (acquired by Target in 2013) and WeddingChannel.com (acquired by The Knot in 2006). Bill is a 1977 graduate of Harvard Law School (JD, magna cum laude) and a 1973 graduate of MIT, where he earned a MS in Management from Sloan School of Management and a BS in Mathematics. Bill began his career at the Sand Hill Road office of the Boston Consulting Group in 1977. He spent five years as a strategic planning consultant at BCG offices in Menlo Park, Chicago and Munich. From 1982 through 1993, Bill was full-time as President of Nathan Todd & Company, an investment advisory firm which specialized in providing wealth management services and in representing private family fortunes. As part of this work, Bill co-founded five independently managed investment partnerships with over $600 million under management in the areas of securities trading, real estate and merchant banking. He was also active in venture capital, including investments in traditional funds, co-investments with those funds, and direct venture investments. In addition to his work at Nathan Todd & Company, from 1994 through 1997, Bill was the co-founder and a Managing Director of a boutique Los Angeles merchant bank affiliated with Jefferies & Company, Inc.