William L. Tyson

Class of '84

Mr. Tyson joined BB&T Capital Markets (a division of Scott & Stringfellow) in the Investment Banking Group as Managing Director and Co-Head of Corporate Finance in July 1997. He was named Co-Head of Investment Banking for BB&T Capital Markets Jan. 1, 2000. In January 2002, he 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 composed of 75 professionals across six distinct Industry practice groups and the firm’s Financial Sponsors Group. Throughout his 20-year career in investment banking, Mr. Tyson has completed over 100 capital financings and mergers and acquisitions advisory assignments.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Tyson was 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 Practices. Before joining Wheat in 1991, Mr. Tyson was a Vice President with Wachovia Corporation. Mr. Tyson is a graduate of the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, where he received a B.S. in Commerce, concentrating in finance, in 1984. He is also a graduate of the 2003 Executive Program (TEP) at the Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia. Mr. Tyson also completed the Farr Leadership Institute (2003) and Leadership Metro Richmond (Class of 2008).