William Osborne Perkins III (born February 2, 1964) is an American hedge fund manager and poker player.

His father, Bill Perkins, was a criminal defense attorney who served two terms in the New Jersey General Assembly and played four games as a running back for the New York Jets.

In 1995, during the deregulation of the electricity market in Texas, Perkins moved to Houston to run a trade derivatives and options desk as a trader and risk manager for El Paso Energy, Statoil, AIG Energy Trading, and Zahr Securities.

In 2002, he joined his friend and former Enron trader John D. Arnold's new hedge fund, Centaurus Energy.

Despite annual gains Centaurus shut down in 2012 due to low natural gas prices.

Perkins, then founded Skylar Capital, a fund to trade U.S. gas futures, options and swaps.