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Bill Tyson has over 40 years of experience across leadership development, strategic planning, investment banking and capital markets and has served in executive leadership and strategic development roles for some of the largest banks and financial institutions in the country. Bill most recently served as Head of Mergers & Acquisitions within the Investment Banking Group of Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ: FITB) until his 're-Wirement' in December 2024. In his various roles with Fifth Third, he was responsible for the strategic direction of the Capital Markets, M&A and Investment Banking platforms and for driving non-organic growth initiatives for Fifth Third Bancorp. Bill also held the position of Executive Vice President, Co-Head of Capital Markets during his tenure with Fifth Third that began in 2016.
Prior to that, he served as Senior Managing Director and Co-Head of Investment Banking (and in various other senior leadership roles) during an approximately 18-year tenure with BB&T Capital Markets (and its predecessor, Scott & Stringfellow), the Capital Markets Division of BB&T Corp (NYSE: BBT), now known as Truist Corporation (NYSE: TFC). Bill also headed Wheat First Butcher Singer's Furnishings, Consumer and Industrial Growth Industry Verticals as a Managing Director, and prior to that served as a Vice President with Wachovia Corporation in Winston-Salem, NC.
During his career, Bill advised on more than 350 capital financing and M&A transactions across the public and private capital markets. Bill earned a bachelor's degree in finance and accounting from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia and later graduated from The Executive Program (TEP) at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia.
Bill serves on multiple boards including CULP, Inc. (NYSE: CULP), RidgeRock, Inc. and Alleghany Warehouse, Inc. He was past president of both the Virginia Athletics Foundation Board of Trustees and the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce Advisory Board, and former chairman of the St. Margaret's School Board of Governors. He currently serves on the finance committee of the Church Schools of the Diocese of Virginia and on the board of the St. Christopher's School Foundation. Bill is a 2008 graduate of Leadership Metro Richmond and LEAD Virginia, Class of 2020, and a proud founding member of the RVA1004100, a youth philanthropic organization in Richmond, Virginia, now in its 17th year, which has raised over $1 million in service to youth in Central Virginia.