Ms. McWilliams joined EcoR1 Capital, LLC to oversee the firm’s partner relations in May 2016 after spending six and a half years as a Managing Director of Capital Introductions at BTIG, LLC, a privately owned boutique broker dealer. While at BTIG, her responsibilities included building and maintaining institutional investor relationships in the South, Midwest, and Western US regions. Prior to BTIG, Ms. McWilliams spent two and a half years with UBS’s Prime Brokerage division in the Dallas branch. She began her career as a real estate investment analyst focused on student housing assets on collegiate campuses. Ms. McWilliams received her BBA in Finance from the McCombs Business School at the University of Texas – Austin. She resides in Highland Park, Texas with husband, Hunter, and four daughters.