William J. Supple

Mr. Supple is Director of Public & Taft-Hartley Funds and has Relationship Management oversight responsibility for all Public and Taft-Hartley Sector clients. He joined the firm in March 2002 from Mellon Institutional Asset Management, where he was a Vice President with responsibility for Taft-Hartley clients in the Northeast and Midwest. Previously, he was Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of the Leveraged Finance and Fixed Income Groups, and was also National Sales Manager, with BankBoston. Prior to his thirteen years at BankBoston, Mr. Supple was with Chase in New York City for six years. Mr. Supple is a former member of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, Local 2, AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union, Local 254 (Fenway Park Ushers). He served for seven years as a founding Trustee of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Health Care Security Trust (Tobacco Settlement Funds). He has been elected to public office six times in Needham, MA, serving two terms as Chairman of the Trust Funds Commission, and served twelve years as an elected Town Meeting Member. Mr. Supple is a Member of the Sponsor Council of the Christian Brothers Institute of Massachusetts and is a past Chair of the Board of Directors at Catholic Memorial School. He is a Trustee of Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart and also served on the Finance Committee for the Jesuit’s USA Northeast Province. He is a member of the Board of Advisors of the College of the Holy Cross, past Chair of the President’s Council, and served as a member of the Institutional Advancement Committee of the Holy Cross Board of Trustees. Mr. Supple holds a B.A. degree (Cum Laude) from the College of the Holy Cross, an M.B.A. degree in finance from New York University, and FINRA licenses 7 and 63. Mr. Supple began his career in the industry in 1981.