Bill Achenbach is a Principal and Client Strategist at Signature, having merged his independent practice into Signature in 2007. He practiced in Charlottesville with his own firm, W. L. Achenbach & Associates, as an independent fee-based financial advisor from 1991 to 2007. Prior to that he was a founding partner of the Chicago office of the financial counseling firm Brownson, Rehmus & Foxworth, Inc., .; a partner in the investment management firm Stein, Roe and Farnham;, and an associate in the law firm Kirkland & Ellis.

Bill is a former Trustee of Northwestern University and President of its Alumni Association, and a former Trustee and Audit Chair of a national mutual fund complex. In Charlottesville he has served as a Board member and Treasurer of the Farmington Country Club, and currently serves on the Vestry and as Chair of the Stewardship and Rector Search Committees for St. Paul’s, Ivy Episcopal church.

Bill has held numerous volunteer positions at the Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville, including terms on the Finance, Investment, Planning, Nominating, and CEO Evaluation Committees of the hospital. He is a former Chair of the Hospital Board and the Foundation Board, and is current Chair of the Health Services (parent) Board of Martha Jefferson. He also recently became Board member of Sentara Health System, through its merger with Martha Jefferson Hospital.

Bill holds an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University, and graduate degrees from the University of Chicago Law School (JD) and Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management (MBA).

With three grown children, Bill and his wife live in Albemarle Country. He enjoys travel, photography, and has an abiding passion for piloting his Harley Davidson Road King Classic around the countryside whenever possible.