William Deane is a founder of venture capital firm Exto Partners and a director of a number of their investee companies.
He has also co-founded several high growth technology companies and was a co-founder of RedHill Education.
Mr Deane practised as a corporate lawyer in Australia with Blake Dawson, and in the United States with Skadden Arps and Sidley Austin, where he focused on equity capital markets and mergers & acquisitions.