Bill Sinclair

Bill Sinclair was formerly Chairman and CEO of First Washington Bancorp, an 18 billion dollar bank holding company. Prior to First Washington, he was President of American Federal Bank, Perpetual American Bank, and Nuwest Bankshares. Sinclair was also a faculty member of the Federal Reserve System, the Mortgage Bankers Association, the AT&T School of Banking, and the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, serving as an expert on Mortgage and Investment Banking. In addition, he was a guest lecturer quarterly on Economic and Political Issues at Northwestern University’s Graduate School of Management, from 1980 to 1990.

Bill was a member of the Board of Directors of Firemans Insurance Co., The Greater Washington Board of Trade, the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, Republic Mortgage Insurance Co., and the Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Va.

From 1982 to 1984 Sinclair testified at the Congressional Hearings on Banking Legislation and Deregulation. In 1989 he was elected President of the Greater Washington Board of Trade and became a member of the Young Presidents Organization. In 1995 he became Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Liberty Capital Markets in Irvine Ca. Sinclair served as Naval Officer during the Vietnam Era.