Bill Bachenberg Net Worth 2026: DBSi Founder, NRA President
Bill Bachenberg founded IT firm DBSi, owns Lehigh Valley Sporting Clays and became NRA president in 2025. No reputable outlet publishes a net worth figure.
- Full name
- William A. Bachenberg
- Known as
- Bill Bachenberg
- Profession
- Businessman, NRA president
- Nationality
- American
- Spouse
- Laura Bachenberg
- Relationship
- Married
- Source of wealth
- Founder of DBSi; owner of Lehigh Valley Sporting Clays
In this article
No major outlet publishes a specific net worth for Bill Bachenberg, and the $30 million figure on older profile pages has no traceable source. The Philadelphia Inquirer described him in 2023 as a Lehigh Valley millionaire. His money comes from four decades running the IT firm DBSi, which he founded in 1981 and merged in 2012, and from owning Lehigh Valley Sporting Clays, a shooting range near Allentown, Pennsylvania. Since 2025 he has also been president of the National Rifle Association.
What is Bill Bachenberg's net worth?
Forbes, Bloomberg and Celebrity Net Worth do not list him, and neither DBSi nor the shooting range is a public company. Without disclosed sale prices or filings, no honest dollar figure can be given, so this page no longer states one.
What the public record does show about his means:
- DBSi grew to more than 80 employees and over $40 million in sales before its 2012 merger, according to his biography on the LifeAire Systems board page.
- He and his wife, Laura, spent more than $507,000 supporting Donald Trump and other Republican candidates and committees in 2020, per the Inquirer's review of campaign finance records.
- A federal lawsuit alleged he provided a $1 million line of credit for post-2020 election audits (Inquirer), and in June 2025 he agreed to pay $500,000 to settle that case (Lehigh Valley Public Media).
Yearly income
An earlier version of this page gave his income as $900,000 a year. That number had no source and has been removed. His pay as CEO and later senior advisor of DBSi, and the profits of Lehigh Valley Sporting Clays, have never been disclosed.
Career: from farming to data centers
Before tech, Bachenberg owned and ran an 800-acre grain farm and a farm equipment dealership, and served as president of the Hunterdon County Board of Agriculture in New Jersey (LifeAire bio).
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1981 | Founds Data Based Systems International (DBSi) as a one-person consulting firm, first selling software for petroleum distributors and agribusiness |
| 1980s-1990s | Moves into minicomputers, custom accounting software, then systems integration, benchmarking and pre-staging of customer hardware |
| 2000 | Buys Lehigh Valley Sporting Clays in North Whitehall Township |
| 2001 | DBSi has 35 employees serving clients across North America, Europe, Asia and South Africa (The Morning Call) |
| 2012 | DBSi merges with two other firms; it is described as acquired by a larger cybersecurity company, and he stays on as senior advisor |
| 2025 | Elected NRA president after serving on its board |
| 2026 | Unanimously reelected NRA president at the Houston annual meeting (American Rifleman) |
In its later years DBSi focused on hosting and disaster recovery services run from its own technology centers in the Northeast.
Lehigh Valley Sporting Clays and Camp Freedom
The range sits on about 130 acres in a former limestone quarry near Ormrod, with 18 shooting stations, The Morning Call reported when he bought it. He started shooting sporting clays in 1998. The business also runs corporate events and fundraising shoots for local nonprofits, and it has hosted political events, including a 2024 campaign stop for Dave McCormick.
He also founded Camp Freedom, a nonprofit on more than 2,300 acres in Lackawanna County that hosts hunts for veterans, according to the Inquirer.
NRA and political roles
Bachenberg sat on the NRA board for years, where he chaired the finance committee and served as a trustee of the NRA Foundation (LifeAire bio). He became president in 2025 and was reelected in 2026.
His political profile grew after 2016. According to the Inquirer and Wikipedia, he co-chaired the Sportsmen for Trump PAC in 2020 and chaired Pennsylvania's slate of alternate electors for Trump after that election. He was among 14 people subpoenaed by the House January 6th Committee in 2022 and was not criminally charged. In 2025 he ran for chair of the Pennsylvania Republican Party and lost to state Sen. Greg Rothman.
Recent legal matter (2025)
In July 2023 the cybersecurity company XRVision sued him and attorney Stefanie Lambert in federal court in Michigan, alleging it was not paid for voting machine analyses that found no evidence of fraud. According to a June 2025 court filing reported by Lehigh Valley Public Media, Bachenberg agreed to pay $500,000 in exchange for being dropped from the case.
Age, wife and personal life
The Morning Call gave his age as 43 in October 2001, and the Inquirer described him as 65 in October 2023, which puts his birth around 1958. His exact birth date is not public. He is married to Laura Bachenberg (Wikipedia, Inquirer). The earlier version of this page listed a height of 173 cm; no source supports it, so it was removed.
Related profiles
For other business figures whose wealth is hard to pin down from public records, see Bonawyn Eison and Bucky Heard. Another founder of a privately held company is profiled in Bob Lothenbach.
How this page was checked
Company history comes from the LifeAire board biography and The Morning Call; political and legal details come from The Philadelphia Inquirer, Lehigh Valley Public Media and Wikipedia's cited reporting; the 2026 reelection comes from the NRA's American Rifleman. The unsourced net worth, income and height figures from the previous version were removed.
Frequently asked questions
What is Bill Bachenberg's net worth?
No reputable outlet publishes a specific figure. The Philadelphia Inquirer called him a Lehigh Valley millionaire in 2023. His wealth comes from DBSi, the IT firm he founded in 1981 that reached over $40 million in sales, and from owning Lehigh Valley Sporting Clays. The $30 million figure on some sites has no source.
What does Bill Bachenberg do for a living?
He founded DBSi, an Allentown-area IT, hosting and disaster recovery firm, and stayed on as senior advisor after its 2012 merger. He has owned Lehigh Valley Sporting Clays since 2000 and has been president of the National Rifle Association since 2025, reelected in 2026.
How old is Bill Bachenberg?
His exact birth date is not public. The Morning Call reported he was 43 in October 2001, and The Philadelphia Inquirer said he was 65 in October 2023, which suggests he was born around 1958 and is in his late 60s in 2026. His height has not been published.
Who is Bill Bachenberg's wife?
He is married to Laura Bachenberg, according to Wikipedia and The Philadelphia Inquirer. The Inquirer reported that the couple spent more than $507,000 supporting Republican candidates and committees in 2020.
What is Bill Bachenberg's yearly income?
His income has never been disclosed. DBSi and Lehigh Valley Sporting Clays are private businesses, The $900,000 yearly figure that appeared on older profile pages had no source.
Why did Bill Bachenberg pay a $500,000 settlement?
XRVision sued him in 2023, alleging it was not paid for 2020 election voting machine analyses in Pennsylvania and Michigan that found no fraud. In June 2025 he agreed to pay $500,000 to be dropped from the federal case, Lehigh Valley Public Media reported.
Sources
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bachenberg
- LifeAire Systems: https://lifeaire.com/bill-bachenberg/
- The Morning Call: https://www.mcall.com/2001/10/15/business-targets-popular-new-sport-owner-bill-bachenberg-sees-growth-for-lehigh-valley-sporting-clays-near-ormrod/
- The Philadelphia Inquirer: https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/bill-bachenberg-pennsylvania-2020-election-donald-trump-20231018.html
- Lehigh Valley Public Media: https://www.lehighvalleypublicmedia.org/news/elections/armchair-report-bachenberg-agrees-to-pay-500k-to-settle-voting-machine-audit-lawsuit/
- American Rifleman: https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/bill-bachenberg-unanimously-reelected-nra-president-doug-hamlin-unanimously-reelected-as-nra-executive-vice-president-ceo-in-houston/
