William Vaughan Kelly
Overview
Experience
Representative Matters
GLP Capital Partners on the $3.7 billion sale of GCP International to Ares Management Corporation.
King Street Capital in its acquisition of Colovore, a Silicon Valley-based data center operator specializing in liquid-cooled, high-density colocation for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.
Generate Capital in a $650 million investment in Pine Gate Renewables.
Greenbelt Capital Partners in its strategic investment in CTC Global, a global provider of advanced conductors for utilities and grid infrastructure.
BlackRock Inc. (NYSE: BLK) in its $550 million equity investment in 1PointFive Stratos Holdings, LLC, a newly formed joint venture with Occidental Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: OXY) to develop STRATOS, the world's largest Direct Air Capture facility, in Ector County, Texas.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P., together with Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, in its acquisition of Compass Datacenters, a designer and provider of data centers for hyperscalers and cloud providers on campuses across the globe.
Carnelian Energy Capital in its acquisition of an upstream oil and gas company.
A private company in its simultaneous unwinding of two joint ventures and mutual purchase and sale of various assets from its joint venture partner, a private company.
A private equity sponsor in the formation of a management platform, with over $500 million in capital commitments, targeting investments in upstream oil and gas.
A private company in the issuance of over $100 million of asset-backed securities secured by operated producing oil and gas wells.
Quantum Energy Partners in its partnership with Bison Oil & Gas to form Bison Oil & Gas Partners IV, LLC with more than $500 million in equity capital commitments, and in closing multiple DJ Basin acquisitions.
A healthcare staffing company in its sale of a minority equity interest to a strategic investor.
Private equity sponsor in its bid for a multi-billion dollar publicly-traded data center company.
Vista Equity Partners and Power Factors in their acquisition of Inaccess, a leading provider of integrated mission critical hardware and software solutions for renewable power plants, battery energy storage systems, hybrid plants, and virtual power plants.
Transportation Infrastructure Partners, a joint venture between Ridgewood Infrastructure, LLC and Savage, in the acquisition of Worldwide Terminals Fernandina, LLC, the manager and operator for the Port of Fernandina, Florida, a strategic intermodal terminal handling essential bulk, breakbulk and containerized cargo.
Thoma Bravo in its strategic growth investment in Circle Cardiovascular Imaging, the global leader in cardiovascular imaging solutions.
Ares Management in a private company acquisition.
KKR and Atlantic Aviation in the merger of Atlantic Aviation and Ross Aviation, the second and third largest Fixed Base Operator aviation networks in North America.
The Carlyle Group in its $500 million acquisition of a minority interest in energy infrastructure.
Prior Experience
Summer Associate, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Summer Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal + Partners
- Director of Operations
- Operations Manager
- Manager, Corporate Initiatives
- Line Producer/AE
Executive Director, Metonymy Labs
Line Producer/PM/PC/PA, Freelance
Co-Founder/Chief Financial Officer, The Ascot Group
Co-Founder/Chief Financial Officer, Tabbie, Inc.
Co-Founder/Chief Financial Officer, Cspot, Inc.
Consultant/Grant Manager, National Science Foundation
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Thought Leadership
Publications
Co-Author, “Automated Indexing and Search of Video Data in Large Collections with inVideo,” Sensors & Transducers, Vol. 215, Issue 8, pp. 27-34, August 2017
Co-Author, “Smart Cities Architecture and Security in Cybersecurity Education,” Journal of The Colloquium of Information Systems Security Education, 2016
Co-Author, “Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems Architecture and Cybersecurity in Smart Cities." Journal of The Colloquium of Information Systems Security Education, 2016
Co-Author, “Video-Based Big Data Analytics in Cyberlearning,” Journal of Learning Analytics, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 36-26, 2016
Co-Author, “A Novel Threat Analysis and Risk Mitigation Approach to Prevent Cyber Intrusions,” Journal of Colloquium for Information System Security Education, Vol. 3, Issue 1, 157-174, 2015
Co-Author, “Data Security and Threat Modeling for Smart City Infrastructure,” Proc. of IEEE Cyber Security of Smart Cities, Industrial Control System and Communications, 1-6, 2015
Co-Author, “Using Novel Video Indexing and Data Analytics Tool to Enhance Interactions in E-Learning,” In Proceedings of Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 1919-1927, 2015
Co-Author, “inVideo - A Novel Big Data Analytics Tool for Video Data Analytics and Its Use in Enhancing Interactions in Cybersecurity Online Education,” WIT Transactions on Information and Communication Technologies, Vol. 60. pp. 321-328, 2015
Co-Author, “inVideo – A Learning Analytic Tool for Unstructured Video Data with Applications to Massive Online Open Courseware (MOOCs).” Kelly and Seppala (Eds.), Principles for the Design of Massive Online Open Courseware
Speaking Engagements
“inVideo – An Automatic Video Index and Search Engine for Large Video Collections,” In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Advances in Signal, Image and Video Processing, Barcelona, Spain, May 2017
“Users’ Intellectual Product: Issues of Beneficence and Justice. Human Subjects’ Protections in the Digital Age: IRB, Privacy and Big Data,” National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, 2014
“inVideo – A Novel Big Data Analytics Tool for Video Data Analytics,” IEEE/NIST IT Pro Conference, 2014
“The Business of Massive Open Online Courses,” National Science Foundation Big Data in Education Conference, University of Helsinki, Finland, 2013
“Analysis of the Policy Challenges for Educational Entrepreneurship in Science Education,” National Science Foundation Race to the Top Conference, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, 2011
Recognition
"Top 10 Entrepreneurs Under 30 in the DC Area," Northern Virginia Magazine, 2010
"Top 100 Student Companies in America," Kairos Society Global Summit, 2010
1st Place, UVA McIntire School of Commerce Business Plan Competition, 2009
1st Place, Virginia Tech Business Plan Competition, 2009
2nd Place, Best Use of a Partner API, Fintech Hackathon, 2013
3rd Place, UVA Entrepreneurship Cup Grand Championship
4th Place, Princeton University Tiger Launch, 2009
Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2021Texas
Education
- University of Virginia School of LawJ.D.2021
Assistant Managing Editor, Virginia Journal of International Law
President, Student Legal Forum
Vice President of Marketing, Lone Star Lawyers
Actor/Singer/Writer, The Libel Show
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityB.S., Finance, Insurance, and Business Law2011
Chief Justice of the Honor Board & Treasurer, Delta Tau Delta
Treasurer, Entrepreneur Society at Virginia Tech
Treasurer, Naturally Sharp