William Orke

William Edward Orke, also listed publicly as Bill Orke, is associated with WCM Investment Management, a Laguna Beach-based investment adviser founded in 1976. SEC IAPD lists him under CRD #1052851 and shows a prior investment-adviser registration with WCM Investment Management from August 19, 2011 to April 1, 2026, with the registration location shown as Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Third-party professional directories list Orke at WCM as a Portfolio Specialist and describe him as based in Minneapolis. Older business-profile data lists him as a Managing Director at WCM from October 2002 and notes prior experience at Steward Capital Management as Managing Director / Portfolio Manager from February 1994 to October 2002. I did not find a primary-source education record or a current public WCM profile page for Orke.

WCM itself is an SEC-registered investment adviser focused on active equity investment management. Recent WCM public materials and private-investment data show that the firm participates in late-stage private growth rounds alongside its public-equity strategies, including investments in AI, data infrastructure, defense technology, fintech, and global consumer platforms.

• WCM’s stated investment framework centers on “moat trajectory,” described by WCM portfolio manager Sanjay Ayer as asking whether “a company's competitive advantage [is] growing over time.”
• WCM emphasizes corporate culture as part of diligence, looking for whether the company’s culture supports behaviors that expand the moat.
• The firm’s public private-investment holdings skew growth-stage rather than seed-stage; examples include Anthropic, Databricks, ClickHouse, Scale, Kavak, Faire, Canva, Figma, Firefly Aerospace, KoBold Metals, and Anduril.
• WCM’s own holdings data classifies recent private investments across Data & AI, Fintech, Software, Aerospace & Defense, Defense Tech, Natural Resources, Auto Retail & Fintech, and Wholesale Retail Marketplace.
• I found no evidence that Orke personally operates as an angel investor or seed investor; the available verified data points to WCM-related investment-advisory and growth-equity activity.