Our Team
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Gabon Williams - Managing Partner
Gabon Williams is an entrepreneur, investor, software engineer, and cybersecurity expert. Prior to founding GW2 Partners, Gabon worked at Rapid7 on the Corporate Development team focused on Mergers & Acquisitions. Previously, he worked as a Quantitative Trading Consultant at Diametric Capital, while sharing some time with an emerging private equity fund as a Corporate Development Manager. Gabon has extensive investing experience from his time at Kapor Capital and CapitalizeVC, where he led strategic investments in fintech-adjacent spaces. He is now transferring his expertise to the private sector, leading and managing the family office of his brother, Grant Williams. Prior to Gabon's work in the public and private financial sector, he worked at TIAA as a cybersecurity engineer, spearheading company-wide initiatives that led to 90% reduction in software vulnerability exposures and millions of dollars in savings. Gabon is on several boards of nonprofit organizations, serving as Executive Director of the Grant Williams Family Foundation and President of the Black Business Students Association at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Gabon Williams earned a BS in Computer Engineering from Johnson C. Smith University in 2017, a Master's in Cybersecurity from UNC Charlotte in 2020, and is currently a MBA student at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Grant Williams - Partner
Grant Williams is a current NBA player for the Charlotte Hornets. Prior to the Hornets, Grant played for the Dallas Mavericks in 2023 and for the Boston Celtics for 4 years where he was drafted in 2019. Before his time in the NBA, Grant played D1 at the University of Tennessee where he was the two-time back-to-back SEC Player of the Year and led his team to a Sweet 16 appearance. Outside of the court, Grant takes huge pride and places high importance in building equitable ecosystems both inside and outside of the NBA. Grant currently serves as the First Vice President of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA). Grant also founded the Grant Williams Family Foundation in 2019 with the hopes of empowering underserved students to realize their fullest potential. For his social work, Grant Williams received the Bill Russell Mentoring Award in 2022 and was nominated for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Champion Award in 2023. Grant also has a passion for entrepreneurship and investing and has founded a family office with his brother, Gabon Williams. Grant earned a BS in Supply Chain Management from the University of Tennessee in three years.