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Executive Summary:International legal and corporate development executive with 25-year track record driving rapid growth and supernormal returns in both mature and emerging businesses. Trusted advisor and creative thought partner to C-Suite colleagues, board members, and major investors. Driving force behind highly accretive and favorably structured transactions for private equity portfolio companies. Action-oriented head of matrix development teams who grew disruptive start-up into market leader. Commercially savvy General Counsel who built high-performance legal teams for two growth companies. Proven developer of C-Suite talent and P&L owner of subsidiary businesses.Professional Experience:In his ten years as Enviva’s Executive Vice President, Corporate Development & General Counsel, Bill led the corporate and project development teams charged with expanding the company’s operating footprint, and he was responsible for all legal matters associated with the company’s worldwide activities. Bill played leading roles in Enviva’s initial public offering, subsequent corporate simplification transaction, and each of the organic and inorganic growth initiatives, including acquisitions, greenfield development projects, and joint ventures, that enabled those strategic transactions. During Bill’s tenure, Enviva’s industry-leading production capacity increased more than 10x through acquisitions and greenfield development projects that he led.In January 2023, Bill stepped down from his executive positions at Enviva pursuant to a succession plan he developed with the company’s board of directors, and his responsibilities leading the company’s corporate development, construction, and legal functions were assumed by two executives who previously reported to him. Bill left Enviva in order to take an international sabbatical during 2023 and early 2024.Bill previously was Senior Vice President & General Counsel of Buckeye Partners, L.P., a publicly traded midstream energy company, and President of Lodi Gas Storage, L.L.C., its natural gas storage subsidiary. Buckeye’s market capitalization quadrupled during Bill’s tenure, as the company was transformed from a regional pipeline company into a diversified energy company with assets located across the US and in international markets.Over his career, Bill has worked on dozens of successful mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, bank and capital market financings, and a broad array of commercial transactions.

Listed skills include Energy, Development Projects, Master Limited Partnerships, Mergers And Acquisitions, and 12 others.