Bill Clerico

Founder & Managing Partner

Splitting time between San Francisco and Mendocino County, Bill loves both the forests of Northern California and the energy and pace of Silicon Valley. He is passionate about technology’s potential to create new tools for firefighters, policy makers, utilities, insurance companies, landowners and other stakeholders in order to restore a healthy relationship with fire.

Prior to starting Convective Capital, Bill was co-founder & CEO of WePay, a fintech company which was acquired by J.P. Morgan Chase in 2017. Bill is an active angel investor in over 50 seed-stage companies and was previously a Part-Time Partner at Y Combinator.

When he isn’t talking to founders, you’ll find him skiing or working on his timber ranch in Boonville CA. In the past, he volunteered with the Anderson Valley Fire Department and American Red Cross Disaster Action Teams. Bill lives in San Francisco and Boonville with his wife Katey, son Sully, and Rhodesian Ridgeback Penny. Bill has a B.S. in Computer Science from Boston College.