William L. Tyson
Experience
Mr. Tyson joined BB&T Capital Markets in the Investment Banking Group as Managing Director and Co-Head of Corporate Finance in July 1997. On January 1, 2000, Mr. Tyson was named Head of Investment Banking for BB&T Capital Markets. In January, 2002, Mr. Tyson was named to the Executive Management Committee of BB&T Capital Markets and became Senior Managing Director and Co-Head of the Investment Banking Group, which is currently comprised of 70 professionals across seven distinct Industry Practice Groups and the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Tyson had been employed as a Managing Director, Investment Banking at Wheat First Butcher Singer for the previous seven years, where he headed the Firm’s Furnishings, Consumer and Industrial Growth Industry Groups focusing on furnishings, textiles and other industrial and growth companies. Prior to joining Wheat in 1991, Mr. Tyson was a Vice President with Wachovia Corporation.
Education
Mr. Tyson is a graduate of the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia where he received a B.S. in Finance and a graduate of the 2003 Executive Program at the Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia.