About Bill Snow

Bill Snow is an experienced M&A professional with over 30 years of professional experience, including almost two decades as an investment banker. He is a Managing Director at FOCUS Investment Banking. His work includes business sales and capital raises for middle-market companies as well as buy-side services for acquirers seeking middle-market companies. Bill’s clients have included water works manufacturers and value-added distributors as well as firms focusing on packaging, medical supplies and equipment, automotive parts, drink dispensing equipment, security, apparel, refined fuels, and more. Click this to view Bill's bio at FOCUS. 

He has written articles for online sources, as well as books about mergers and acquisitions (Mergers & Acquisitions For Dummies), early stage capital (Venture Capital 101) and personal marketing (Networking Is A Curable Condition). He has presented at universities including Northwestern University, DePaul University, IIT-Kent, and Harvard Business School, as well as the Thomson Reuters Midwestern M&A/Private Equity Forum, Chase Bank, Huntington Bank, Ice Miller, the Illinois CPA Society, and the University Club of Chicago. 

Bill is a Vistage speaker and has presented to groups in Chicago, New Orleans, Louisville, and Cincinnati. He has lectured internationally in Malaysia, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, and somewhere off the coast of Norway. He has an MBA and a BS in finance, both from DePaul University, and he’s a FINRA-registered Investment Banking Representative (series 62, 63, and 79).