William Christopher SkelleyReal Estate Investor & Crowdfunding Pioneer

William Christopher Skelley is a founder, operator, and adviser working where real estate and technology meet, in the US and Southeast Asia.

The through line started in Boston with his father. His father attended Harvard and law school, then spent more than twenty years at Polaroid as head of the Western Hemisphere. He left Polaroid in the early 2000s, as Will was beginning his career. Will tagged along. Together they worked with startups across Silicon Valley and Boston on fundraising, marketing, operations, and board work, whatever the company needed next.

He then worked at General Electric and Bain Capital, and at Olympus from New York, reporting to the board in Tokyo. He attended Harvard Business School’s Owner/President Management program, connected with the Clayton Christensen network, and joined Rose Park Advisors. There he worked on the portfolio and on sourcing, screening companies through Christensen’s disruption lens. He was at the firm in the years it held Coupang.

He founded iFunding, one of the first real estate crowdfunding platforms in the US, and exited in 2017. Across his career he has been involved in over $1B of real estate transactions and has personally raised roughly $100M in equity and debt for projects, founders, and startups in the US and Asia.

He now lives in Da Nang, Vietnam, splits time with Bali, operates short term rentals in Indonesia, and advises founders on capital and growth. He chairs the board of advisers at Santara AI.