FTI Consulting, the global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations protect and enhance their enterprise value, has appointed William Isaac as senior managing director and head of the Financial Institutions Group. Isaac and his team join FTI Consulting as part of the recently announced acquisition of certain key practices of LECG Corporation.

Isaac will lead the Financial Institutions Group in assisting financial institutions in a variety of areas including enterprise risk management, corporate governance, loan review, due diligence, liquidity management, stress testing, capital and loss reserve modeling, strategic planning and regulatory compliance and relations. Isaac is joined by senior leaders of his team: Mike Mancusi, Jeff Curry, John Maher, and Mary Somerville.

Isaac previously founded the Secura Group, a financial institutions consulting firm that was acquired by LECG in 2007. Prior to forming Secura, Isaac headed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) during the banking crisis of the 1980s, serving under Presidents Carter and Reagan from 1978 through 1985. Isaac also serves as chairman of Fifth Third Bancorp, a banking company.