Bill Lauderback Email Address

Executive Vice President for Public Affairs

Energy, Water, Community Services

Bill Lauderback managed all aspects of the Lower Colorado River Authority's public affairs operations including government affairs, community relations, media relations, economic development and internal communications. He retired and became a communications consultant in July 2022. Lauderback was previously a Senior Advisor at Hill+Knowlton Strategies. He counseled the firm's corporate clients on strategic campaign development and execution with particular emphasis on public affairs, drawing on his more than 35 years of senior-level experience in business management, government affairs, public policy and communications. Lauderback has served as executive vice president of Momentum Securities LLC, where he played an integral role in building the firm from a start-up to one of the nation’s highest volume electronic trading operations. Momentum Securities was acquired by E*Trade Financial Corp. in 2002. Earlier, Lauderback was vice president for governmental affairs of the Texas Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association. Lauderback has also held senior management positions in government at the federal and state levels. He was deputy assistant secretary for gas and petroleum technology in the U.S. Department of Energy during the administration of President George H. W. Bush. He also served as executive director of the Texas Department of Commerce and as special assistant to the Governor of Texas. Lauderback served in senior posts in the 1980 Reagan/Bush presidential campaign and in the 1994 campaign of U.S. Senator Bill Frist (R-Tenn.). He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin (BBA & MBA) and has been a lecturer at the university’s McCombs School of Business.