Bill Carlile joined Ridgecrest Capital Partners in early 2015. Prior to RCP, he spent five years with Morgan Stanley in the firm’s equity research division as a sell-side analyst. There he worked with the firm’s medical technology and semiconductor teams conducting fundamental research and providing advisory services to institutional clients on public equities primarily in the healthcare and technology sectors. During his tenure there, those research teams consistently achieved top accolades in the Institutional Investor Research Team Survey, The Wall Street Journal and other highly regarded industry publications. In 2012 Bill joined Alchemy Networks to direct corporate strategy and finance. Alchemy, a Google seeded digital media startup, produces, aggregates and optimizes digital content for online and mobile platforms. At Alchemy Bill also led capital raising initiatives and directed a corporate restructuring that succeeded in reducing the company burn rate while also accelerating revenue growth. Bill grew up in the Bay Area before attending Middlebury College where he earned a double major in Economics & Philosophy while also playing on the football and lacrosse teams.