Bill Phelps

Bill Phelps, a Booz Allen Hamilton executive vice president, leads the firm’s U.S. commercial business. As the commercial lead, Bill drives the firm’s advancement in cyber, analytics, cloud, IoT, and agile systems development to address the most mission-sensitive challenges facing commercial organizations today. He also directs delivery of integrated consulting and advanced technology solutions to clients including large commercial and investment banks, utilities, oil and gas companies, major retailers, auto manufacturers and large pharmaceutical manufacturers.

Bill is a trusted advisor to senior client executives, helping them understand and address complex cyber security challenges as well as broader technology driven business disruption. He is also a widely respected keynote speaker and panelist at major security conferences where he has spoken on topics related to cyber security, situational awareness, IT resiliency, and real time compliance.

Prior to joining Booz Allen, Bill held a number of senior leadership roles at Accenture. His primary role from 28 to 216 was leading the Accenture Security Practice, first in North America and then globally. Under his leadership the practice grew fivefold, adding multiple service lines including managed security. He also played a key role in three security-related acquisitions, and in the development of Cyber Fusion and R&D centers around the globe. In addition to his senior roles at Accenture, Bill spent four years as co-founder and senior leader at SevenSpace, a venture-backed innovator of remote infrastructure services, which was subsequently sold to Sun Microsystems.

He earned his MBA from the University of Texas at Austin where he won the 1986 Moot Corp Venture Design Competition and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Connecticut.