William T. Powers (Will) is Executive Vice President
– Chief Financial Officer of Rolls-Royce
North America Inc. In this role he is responsible
for all North American finance functions, including
accounting, treasury, corporate development, business
assurance, corporate risk management, taxation
and sales finance. He also serves as a member
of the Rolls-Royce North America Holdings Board
of Directors and its Government Security and Audit
Committees.
From 1995 until returning to the US in June
2000, he was Chief Executive of Rolls-Royce
Capital Limited based in the UK. Before that,
he was Director - Mergers & Acquisitions
for Rolls-Royce plc. In 1994 he served as General
Manager – Sales Finance, Rolls-Royce Inc.,
based in the US. He first joined Rolls-Royce
in 1989 as Treasurer and Head of Customer Finance.
Prior to joining Rolls-Royce he was with Barclays
Bank plc's Aerospace Industry Unit from 1982
to 1989.
Will serves on several corporate and non-profit
Boards of Directors. He is a member of the Board
of Exostar LLC and The Women’s Center
of Northern Virginia. He serves on the Industrial
& External Advisory Board for the Department
of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at
The University of Virginia’s School of
Engineering & Applied Sciences. He is also
on the Dean’s Advisory Council for The
University of Virginia’s McIntire School
of Commerce and The Villanova University Business
School. Will joined the Board of Directors at
LORD Corporation in August 2007 and serves on
its Audit Committee.
Will is a graduate of Villanova University’s
School of Business where he earned a B.S. in
Economics. He also earned a Masters of Business
Administration in Banking and Finance from The
Lubin School at Pace University in New York
City, NY.
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