Bill Liao

Who is Bill Liao?

Bill Liao is an Australian entrepreneur. He is a venture partner with SOSventures and listed as an influential investor on Twitter. He is married with three children and lives in Cork, Ireland.

Liao is a social networking pioneer, author, speaker, and is engaged in not for profit work. Among his non-profit endeavors he is a CoderDojo mentor and he has participated as an investor and volunteer in The Hunger Project in Uganda, New York and Mexico.

He has also been appointed as a special diplomatic envoy for St Kitts and Nevis for sustainable development and the environment. Liao has contributed to the St Kitts and Nevis recovery fund for the sugar cane industry there.

He is also a regular attendee at the TED conferences and also the World Economic Forum New Champions conference.

Liao was also the Director of Operations of telecommunications company Davnet, which achieved the fastest capital value growth in the history of the Australian Stock exchange and which aggregated Internet access in the riser space of office buildings. Davnet was acquired by Japanese telecommunications carrier Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation in 1996. Liao left Davnet after the acquisition, turning his attention to other IT endeavors.