A Senior Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton, Bill Wansley provides consulting support to commercial, nonprofit, and governmental financial services enterprises. He leads multidisciplinary consulting teams providing a full range of operational level management and technology consulting services, including advanced analytics of financial data, operational and technology risk management, compliance and regulatory risk assessments, and payment process redesign.
Mr. Wansley focuses on solving emerging operational risk-related challenges in the financial services sector and the development of cost-effective risk management processes and organizations. He has developed innovative advanced analytic services focused on the application of financial intelligence to anti-money laundering, counter-terrorism, and illicit finance problems, and applies these insights to broader operational risk management challenges.
He has previously served as the program manager for several national security-related projects and contributed to a broad range of security-related services, skills, and insights, including strategic planning, mission innovation, continuity planning, counterintelligence, intelligence operational support, and advanced analytics.
Mr. Wansley has 30 years of professional experience as an operational US Army officer, a national security policy planner, and a management consultant for the US intelligence community. His operational military experience includes serving as a field commander, division level war planner, and national security strategist. For the past 13 years, he has supported US Intelligence Community clients in solving national security risk-related challenges through strategic planning and advanced analytics.
His national-level policy planning experience includes serving as a strategic planner responsible for the Joint Strategic Planning System for the Directorate of Strategic Plans and Policy, J5, Joint Staff. Later in his career, he again served the J5 as a national security policy planner and Joint Staff representative for international negotiations on the Treaty for Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE Treaty).
While a student at the School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), Mr. Wansley published monographs on tactical leadership and a theory of peace, based on the synthesis and integration of traditional military theory and contemporary business management best practices.
He holds an MBA from Creighton University; a M.M.A.S. in theater operations from SAMS; and a B.S. in general engineering from the US Military Academy, West Point.
profile updated August 2011
