Meet the Team
Experience Is Key
Bill Sorenson has performed hundreds of valuations and related analyses for economic valuation and mergers and acquisitions. His valuation experience includes clients in construction, manufacturing, wholesale equipment, professional service, and distribution. Valuations include application of the going concern, net asset, and market comparable approaches as well as modeling, analysis, and forecasting of economic, industry, and company-specific factors. Bill is also experienced in valuing estate interests for a variety of purposes, including estate planning, 706 filings in the event of death, gifting or other transfer of interests, or otherwise complying with partnership agreements.
Bill also provides value enhancement advisory services to clients. These services include rapid improvement process implementations for clients in various industries ranging from manufacturing to professional services. Focus areas for these implementations include sales and marketing, accounting, and order management for manufacturing. These implementations include a manufacturing client that improved weekly on-time delivery rates from 72.0% to 97.5% and a service client that reduced annual expenses by $320,000.
Prior to joining Business Valuations, Inc., Bill served as a director of management consulting services for an engineering and management services contractor. He also served as a manager for the Supply Chain Optimization team for the consulting division of Deloitte & Touche, LLP, leading consulting projects and serving as manufacturing lead for Enterprise Resource Planning system implementations. Bill began his career in defense contracting and provided logistics support for multiple U.S. Navy weapon system programs.
Bill is the past president of the Rotary Club of Jacksonville, serving 2021-2022, and is a graduate of the Leadership Jacksonville class of 2015. In 2016, he was appointed to the National Advisory Council for the National Association of Women Business Owners. He’s served as a panelist for the Jacksonville Women’s Business Center’s ATHENAPowerLink® program since 2018. Bill has served as a judge for the annual Manufacturers Association of Florida’s Manufacturers of the Year Award since 2011. He earned a B.B.A from Virginia Tech and an M.B.A., with a concentration in operations and management information systems, from Purdue University. He holds Series 79, 63, and 24 licenses and the designation of Certified Expert in Lean Management. Bill is also a licensed real estate broker in Florida.