Full Name: William Hockey
Nickname: Will
Country/State: United States
Date of Birth: 1989-09-21
Languages Known: English
Zodiac Sign: Virgo
Food Habit: Vegetarian
Religion: Not public
Hobbies: Not publicly disclosed
School: The Thacher School
College: Emory University
Degrees Obtained: Computer science and economics are commonly reported; exact degree titles vary by source.
Height: 175 cm
Weight: 73 kg
Parents: Not Publicly Known
Siblings: Not publicly disclosed
Marital Status: married
Wife: Not Public
Children: 0
Current Position: Entrepreneur; CEO of Column
Skills:
Net Worth: Not Publicly Known
Awards & Achievements: Co-founded Plaid; later founded Column, a nationally chartered bank focused on developer-first banking infrastructure.
William Hockey is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Plaid and the founder/CEO of Column. He met Zach Perret while working in consulting and later co-founded Plaid to solve the technical friction involved in connecting financial apps to bank accounts. After stepping back from Plaid’s day-to-day leadership, he built Column, positioning it as infrastructure for modern fintech products through a regulated, chartered-bank foundation. In public talks and bios, Hockey is often associated with deep technical execution, platform thinking, and building systems that meet reliability and compliance expectations in financial services.
Column announced that its real-time payments product became available in the United States (May 2025).
Column was reported as a partner in a credit expansion effort with Propel (reported November 2025).
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