
Bill Wickline
Managing Director, Commercial Banking
Head of Life Sciences Group
(858) 259-5356
Bill Wickline is managing director, commercial banking, for Western Alliance and the head of Bridge Bank's Life Sciences Group. He provides term debt and revolving credit facilities to US-based life sciences companies for a variety of purposes, including growth capital, working capital, refinancing, restructuring, recapitalization, as well as mergers and acquisitions. Based in San Diego, he serves clients in biopharmaceutical, medical devices, medical diagnostics/tools industries and more in his role leading the life sciences group.
Mr. Wickline was a co-founder of Bridge Bank’s national life sciences practice in 2015. Comprised of multiple lenders with significant industry experience, our group focuses on adding value to companies in all life sciences verticals and stages of development. Prior to joining Bridge Bank, Bill held a leadership role in the underwriting and portfolio management group at Oxford Finance LLC, helping to grow their west coast practice over 500%.
He holds a MBA from the Rady School of Management at UCSD (graduating with the inaugural full-time class in 2007) and a MS in Management Science with distinguished honors from UCSD.