Joseph W. Williams

Mr. Williams has a generalist background, which includes financial analysis on Wall Street, business-to-business marketing with a major high tech manufacturer, and production and operations work in Japan for a multinational Japanese consumer electronics manufacturer.
Prior to joining Wakefield James, Mr. Williams worked at the investment banking firm of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.
At DLJ, he worked on both equity and debt offerings with teams performing due diligence and valuation.
Through this work, he developed a greater understanding of the use of debt for creating shareholder value in stable cash flow businesses.
Prior to Wall Street, Mr. Williams worked at Texas Instruments (TI) and assisted in sales of Application Specific Integrated Circuits to major U.S.
and Japanese wireless equipment and PC peripheral manufacturers.
He helped to create pricing strategy and cost benefit analyses that were instrumental in guiding the Texas Instruments' sales force.
Immediately after graduation from Stanford University, Mr. Williams worked in Asia as a business analyst in the production department of Konica Corporation, a major Japanese consumer electronics and film manufacturer.
During his time in Tokyo with Konica, he played a lead role in developing production time targets for over fourteen suppliers of components for Konica's Color Laser Jet printer.
In addition, he played a key role in business negotiations with the Hewlett-Packard Corporation.
Mr. Williams has a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.
He attended Asian Language and History programs at the Stanford Japan Center in Kyoto, Japan and at the University of Pennsylvania.
He is also fluent in Japanese.
Mr. Williams received an MBA from the Harvard Business School with a focus on Entrepreneurship and General Management.