Bill perkins poker biography
Venture capitalist bill perkins...
Bill perkins poker biography
Bill Perkins (businessman)
American hedge fund manager, film producer, and poker player (born 1969)
William O. Perkins III (born February 2, 1964) is an American hedge fund manager and poker player.
Perkins manages Skylar Capital, an energy trading hedge fund that had approximately $500 million in assets under management as of 2023.[1]
Biography
Early life and education
Perkins grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey.
His father, Bill Perkins, was a criminal defense attorney who served two terms in the New Jersey General Assembly and played four games as a running back for the New York Jets. His mother was a schoolteacher.[2] He received a B.S.
in electrical engineering from the University of Iowa, his father's alma mater, where he was a walk-on defensive back for the Iowa Hawkeyes football team. He did not have good grades and quit playing football before his senior year.
Career
Energy trading
In 1991, Perkins became a trainee for a clerk on the