Bill McNabb

Bill McNabb is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Vanguard. He joined Vanguard in 1986. In 28, he became chief executive officer; in 21, he became chairman of the board of directors and the board of trustees. He stepped down as chief executive officer at the end of 217 and as chairman at the end of 218. Earlier in his career, he led each of Vanguard’s client facing business divisions.

Bill is active in the investment management industry and served as the chairman of the Investment Company Institute’s board of governors from 213 to 216. A board member of UnitedHealth Group, IBM, and Axiom, he is also chairman of EY’s Independent Audit Committee.

In January 221, he joined the board of Tilney Smith & Williamson, a UK wealth management and professional services group, as a non-executive director. He is a board member of CECP: The CEO Force for Good, a board member of the Philadelphia School Partnership, and the chairm of the board of the Zoological Society of Philadelphia. In addition, Bill is the executive in residence at the Raj & Kamla Gupta Governance Institute at the LeBow College of Business and a member of the Advisory Board of the Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia Law School. He is a senior fellow of the Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management. He also serves on the Dartmouth Athletic Advisory Board.

Bill earned a BA at Dartmouth College and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.