Investment banking, investment management, family-owned businesses and entrepreneurship are among the areas of expertise of Bill Moore. He teaches investment banking.
Professor Moore is a managing partner at Lookout Capital, a private equity firm and a partner at Franklin Street Partners, an investment management company.
He founded Trident Financial Corp., a boutique investment bank that specialized in financial institution public offerings, trading and M&A transactions, in 1975, and served as its CEO until its sale to KeyCorp in 1999.
He has written numerous articles on bank mergers and acquisitions, the future of community banking, thrift institutions and stock conversions for such banking publications as Bank Accounting & Finance, Bottomline, Savings Institution andAmerican Banker.
Professor Moore serves on the boards and executive committees of RTI International and the National Humanities Center, on UNC Kenan-Flagler's Board of Visitors and as a director of Vietri, Inc. He is former chairman of the board of the MCNC Research & Development Institute and was the initial chair of the advisory boards of the UNC-Chapel Hill Programs in the Humanities, UNC Press and the North Carolina Humanities Council.
He is chairman of the Weaver Foundation's investment committee and on the investment committee of the U.S. Naval Academy Foundation. He is past chairman of the UNC’s Educational Foundation and past president of the Kenan-Flagler Business School Foundation.
He received his MBA from UNC-Chapel Hill (where he was the student association president and assistant coach of the men’s varsity tennis team) and his BS from the U.S. Naval Academy.