Board Leadership Team Biography

William (Bill) L. Guttman, Ph.D.
Investment Partner
TL Ventures
Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Technology
Carnegie Mellon University

Bill Guttman is Investment Partner and leads the financial technology practice at Philadelphia-based TL Ventures, with over $1.4B under management. At TL, he focuses on venture investing in category-defining, early-stage companies and provides portfolio companies with operational, entrepreneurial and financial expertise.

Simultaneously, Dr. Guttman is Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University. He is Special Adviser to the Provost, and Chairman of the Board of Carnegie Mellon’s online learning company, iCarnegie, previously having overseen the University’s Alfred P. Sloan Software Industry Center. Dr. Guttman has led a variety of University intellectual property tech transfers; most recently the video capture/search company, Panopto, which he co-founded and whose board he also chairs. From 2004 to 2007, he served on the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering’s cybersecurity committee, established by Congress to advise it on Federal R&D priorities.

Dr. Guttman has been a principal of numerous venture-backed financial technology companies over the years, and currently serves as a board member of Alphacet (alpha-discovery software; Board Chairman), Axioma (portfolio risk analytics software; Board Chairman), Mismi (“dark pool” trading venue; Board Chairman), and Northstar (wealth management software). Prior to their successful exits, he also served on the boards of Clarifi (acquired by Standard & Poors, NYSE: MHP), and Aberdeen (acquired by Harte-Hanks, NYSE: HHS). Dr. Guttman previously co-founded and was Chairman & CEO of Printcafe (NASDAQ:PCAF), a leader in supply-chain management software for print and publishing, which was acquired by Electronics for Imaging (NASDAQ: EFII).

Before founding Printcafe, he served for many years in advisory capacities for the United States, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the OECD. He is the author of Pacific-Asian Capital Markets (OECD/Oxford & IBH), Between Bailout and Breakdown: A Modular Approach to the Latin American Debt Crisis (Center for Strategic and International Studies), US Telecommunications Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa (U.S. Agency for International Development), and contributing author of South America into the 1990s (Westview) and Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace (National Academies of Sciences and Engineering) along with other publications and patents.

Dr. Guttman received his BA from the University of California at Los Angeles. He was awarded Masters and Doctoral Degrees from Balliol College, Oxford University, where he was a British Council Scholar. He is active in the community, and has served on a number of non-profit boards including the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, and Kidsvoice (where he is Chairman of the Investment Committee).