William Steinberg

His formal education began at Old Dominion University, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and refined his analytical foundation. During his studies, he completed a six-month internship at NASA’s Langley Research Center, contributing to Project HALOE, which supported space shuttle missions that collected solar data. He later earned a Master’s degree from California State University, Northridge, where he was inducted into Tau Beta Pi and gained hands-on experience with embedded systems, digital hardware, and signal processing.

William began his professional career in California at McDonnell Douglas, where he worked on development programs for the MD80, MD11, and C-17 aircraft. His responsibilities included developing embedded firmware, operating system software, and airborne data acquisition tools that required rigorous testing and detailed hardware debugging. He later joined Sonatech in Santa Barbara, where he designed controllers and embedded software for underwater acoustic tracking systems used in both military and commercial applications.

In January 1994, William relocated to New York City to join Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Technology Division, marking his transition into financial technology. Over the following decades, he worked on C++ trading infrastructure, mortgage-backed securities platforms, and equities trading systems, delivering real-time data across global desks. He advanced into leadership roles, managing teams responsible for application management, distributed processing, and operational resilience across mission-critical trading environments.

In 2008, he joined Goldman Sachs, where he spent over 14 years supporting Equities Electronic Market Making and Quantitative Trading groups. As Vice President, William Steinberg contributed to market-making platforms, futures trading systems, desk-level risk management, ETF workflows, and exchange integrations. He returned to Morgan Stanley in 2023 as an Executive Director, leading global C++ risk control development while remaining committed to mentorship, philanthropy, and lifelong technical growth.