Mr. Bill Wiseman
Principal
McKinsey
Bill Wiseman is the Managing Principal in McKinsey Taipei office and a leader of our Global Semiconductor Practice. Since joining the Firm in 2001, Bill has worked throughout the semiconductor value chain, serving a mix of IDMs, fabless, foundry, and capital equipment clients on topics of strategy and operations. His recent focus has been finding growth opportunities and new business models as the technology landscape continues to commoditize.
Prior to joining McKinsey, Bill was a Special Warfare officer in the US Navy, leading several elite, 16-member special forces units at SEAL Team 5. As a SEAL Platoon Commander, he served as a military advisor to units in South Korea, Philippines, Malaysia, and Australia. Following his military service, Bill designed mixed-signal integrated circuits for IBM in Raleigh, NC.
Bill received a Master of Business Administration degree from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University, and a Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy.