Bill Escamilla

About Bill

Bill Escamilla, partner and wealth advisor at William Blair, leads The Escamilla Team in the firm’s Private Wealth Management (PWM) group. With deep industry expertise and a passion for the markets, Bill initiated, organized, and now leads the PWM Small and Midcap (SMID) portfolio committee. He is also a member of PWM’s model committee. These two committees comprise senior wealth advisors who create and monitor the two portfolios using William Blair’s proprietary equity research. The two portfolios are used as the basis for building customized client portfolios. He is a former member of the William Blair Select Advisory Council, which advised on the firm’s open-architecture investing.

Bill works closely with the firm’s Corporate & Executive Services and Wealth Planning Services teams to address the specialized needs of corporate executives and other high-net-worth individuals.

Bill joined William Blair from Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown (DBAB), where he was a director, a member of the corporate executive services group, and a member of the investment committee, which was a group of advisors within DBAB responsible for choosing the Focus List from the firm’s research universe. Before joining DBAB in 1995, he was a senior vice president with Kemper Securities and Blunt Ellis & Loewi. He formerly served as a trustee of Shimer College. He grew up in San Francisco, has three grown children, is an avid tennis player, and collects Chinese blue and white porcelain.