William Collis

William Collis is a serial entrepreneur focused on building and exiting technology and data platforms. He earned a Master of Business Administration as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School and completed his undergraduate degree at Amherst College. Throughout his professional career, Collis has achieved multiple successful company exits, most notably including the data platform Genji, which he built alongside his former Amherst roommates and long-time co-founders Jen Herbach and Mark Yarchoan. Beyond his primary entrepreneurial ventures, his academic research on business strategy and corporate innovation has been published in the Harvard Business Review. Additionally, he delivered a TED talk on these specific subjects that has accumulated over 1.5 million views to date. As an experienced founder, Collis currently focuses his professional efforts on the intersection of data technology, business research, and scalable enterprise innovation.