Bill Isaac was appointed to the board of the FDIC by President Carter and confirmed by the Senate in 1978. President Reagan appointed him Chairman of the FDIC in 1980 in which position he served through 1985––one of the most important and tumultuous periods in US banking history, when some 3,000 banks and thrifts failed, including Continental Illinois, nine of the ten largest banks in Texas, numerous other leading regional banks. Appointed at age 34, Bill is the youngest FDIC board member and Chairman in history. He and the legendary Fed Chairman, Paul Volcker, served side by side throughout this period.Bill is currently Chairman of Secura/Isaac Group, the preeminent strategic advisor and partner of choice for financial institutions, non-banks, FinTech firms, central banks, and domestic and international regulatory agencies. Bill is a member of the boards of directors of Emigrant Bank and New York Private Bank & Trust and serves as Chairman of Sarasota Private Trust and Cleveland Private Trust.After completing his service as Chairman of the FDIC, Bill founded The Secura Group, a leading consulting firm, which he sold in 2008. He served as Chairman of the Board of Fifth Third Bancorp, one of the nation’s leading banks, and worked as Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting from 2011 to 2019. Bill is a former board member at TSYS, a leading payment processing company that today is part of Global Payments. He has served on the boards of Amex Bank, The Associates (a finance company formerly owned by Ford Motor Company), credit reporting company TransUnion, and staffing firm MPS Group (now owned by Adecco).Bill is the author of ‘Senseless Panic: How Washington Failed America’ with a foreword by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker. ‘Senseless Panic’ provides an inside account of the banking and savings and loans crises of the 1980s and compares that period to the financial crisis of 2008/2009. Bill’s articles appear in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Times, The Hill, American Banker, Forbes, the Financial Times, the Washington Times, and other leading publications. He appears regularly on television and radio.Bill Isaac received a Distinguished Achievement Medal in 1995 from Miami University and a Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2013 from The Ohio State University. He is a Life member of the Boards of Directors of the Miami University and The Ohio State University Foundations. Bill co-founded in 2016, with his former classmate, the William Isaac & Michael Oxley Center for Business Leadership at Miami University.