William Steinberg

William Steinberg has long been motivated by environments that demand intellectual rigor and reward curiosity. Growing up in a Marine Corps family, with a father who served nearly 35 years as a pilot, he experienced constant relocation and exposure to different cultures. These early years shaped his adaptability and strengthened his fascination with structured systems and mechanics. Alongside academics, he developed a strong connection to music and athletics, learning guitar and playing competitive basketball during high school.

He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Old Dominion University, where classroom learning was reinforced through a six-month internship at NASA’s Langley Research Center. There, William worked on the HALOE project, which was used on space shuttle missions to gather solar data. He later completed a Master’s degree at California State University, Northridge, earning membership in the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society. By graduation, he had gained hands-on experience with digital hardware, embedded systems, and signal processing.

William began his professional career at McDonnell Douglas in California, where he contributed to the development of the MD-80, MD-11, and C-17 aircraft. His responsibilities included embedded firmware, operating system software, and tools for airborne data acquisition systems. The role demanded precision coding, extensive testing, and low-level hardware debugging. He later joined Sonatech in Santa Barbara, where he designed embedded software and controllers for underwater acoustic tracking systems used in military and commercial settings.

In January 1994, William transitioned into finance by joining Morgan Stanley in New York City. Over the next three decades, he worked on complex trading systems, C++ infrastructure, mortgage-backed securities platforms, and real-time market data tools deployed globally. At Goldman Sachs, Vice President William Steinberg supported the equities electronic market-making and quantitative trading groups, building systems for futures and ETFs, and developing desk-level risk management across US exchanges.

William returned to Morgan Stanley in 2023 as an Executive Director within Institutional Securities Technology, leading global C++ teams responsible for trading risk controls. He brings deep expertise in C++, Python, Perl, Lisp, and shell programming, shaped by decades in electronic and algorithmic trading.