Bill Rodriguez

Biography

As a Managing Director of the Foundation, Bill Rodriguez plays a lead role in sourcing new investments and working with the leadership of those organizations as an operating partner and board member as they grow to build capacity and to achieve their maximum impact. As a member of the Foundation’s senior leadership team, he also helps to execute the Foundation’s strategy and goals and contributes to its thought leadership and external outreach. Bill serves with primary responsibility for DRK’s international portfolio. Bill currently serves on the boards of DRK portfolio organizations BarefootLaw, Brastorne, Cowtribe, Food for Education, MaTontine, Numida, OceanMind, VIA Global Health, and Vula Mobile. Bill resides in Botswana with his wife, Rebecca, an obstetrician-gynecologist, and their two young daughters.

Bill is a physician, entrepreneur, and leader in global health. He has served as an advisor to the World Health Organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, more than a dozen national government organizations on global HIV and tuberculosis treatment and pandemic response, as well as numerous start-up for-profit and not-for-profit enterprises, focused on global health technologies, diagnostics and laboratory support, and workforce training. Bill is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale University School of Medicine. He trained in internal medicine and infectious disease at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, where he served as chief medical resident.