Bill Herrell Email & Phone Number

Bill Herrell is Executive Vice President & Managing Director of Bank Director. In this role, he is responsible for leading and implementing board advisory services offered by the company. Bill joined Bank Director in July 2024. He has been advising and studying the community bank industry for more than 30 years. Originally trained as a corporate lender, his career led him to advisory work in the banking industry. Bill’s extensive advisory background ranges from advising on private and public capital raises to structured products and all sizes of mergers and acquisitions. He spearheaded a southeast US advisory team for D. A. Davidson that quickly climbed the M&A league tables. Prior to that, he served as Principal and Co-Founder of The Burke Group, LLC, and was a Managing Director in the Financial Institutions Group banking practice at Morgan Keegan & Co., which was acquired by Raymond James. He has also held positions at FSI Capital, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., and Bank of America, formerly known as NationsBank. Bill has served as an instructor for the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) in Washington, D.C., and as an expert witness on securities matters to the banking industry. He is also a frequent speaker at banking industry conferences on mergers and acquisitions, and private capital raising. Bill currently serves as a member of the Banking and Financial Services Program Advisory Committee at Eastern Kentucky University and as a Board member for profit entities. He has held his Series 7, 24 and 63. Bill holds a master’s degree in finance from Boston College, and a bachelor’s degree in finance and insurance from Eastern Kentucky University.

Listed skills include Investment Banking, Capital Markets, Financial Services, Mergers And Acquisitions, and 20 others.