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Ron Williams
American businessperson From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ronald Allen Williams (born 1949)[citation needed] is an American businessman and board director on corporate, public sector and non-profit boards. He is the former chairman, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Aetna Inc. and is the founder, chairman and CEO of RW2 Enterprises, LLC.
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Williams is the author of Learning to Lead: The Journey to Leading Yourself, Leading Others, and Leading an Organization.
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Business leadership
Williams serves on the board of directors of Warby Parker. He previously served on the boards of Boeing, Johnson & Johnson, and American Express. He is an operating advisor to the private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. (CD&R).[1] He is co-founder and chairman of the board of agilon health[2] and is chairman of the board of apree health, formed by the combination of VERA Whole Health and Castlight.
Williams is chairman of The Conference Board[3] and participates with the Committee for Economic Development (CED). He was a member of the McKinsey & Company External Advisory Group until 2024.[4]
He previously served as vice chairman of The Business Council from 2008 to 2010[5] and chairman of the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH).[6] He was an advisor to The Wall Street Journal CEO Council[7] and a former member of the GE Healthymagination Advisory Committee.[8]
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Aetna leadership
Williams served as both chairman and CEO of Aetna until November 2010 and as chairman through April 2011.[9] He also served as chairman of the Aetna Foundation from 2006 to April 2011.[10] In 2011, Aetna's revenues were $34 billion, and the firm ranked 77th on the Fortune 100 list.
Mr. Williams joined Aetna in 2001 and in 2002 was named president and joined Aetna's board. He was named CEO in February 2006 and chairman of the board in October 2006. In 2001, Aetna reported a net loss from continuing operations of $292 million[11] and earnings per share loss from continuing operations of $0.46. In 2011, full-year operating earnings were $2.0 billion with operating earnings per share of $5.17 producing a 12.3 percent operating EPS CAGR over the prior five years.[12]
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Public service
Williams serves on MIT's North America Executive Board.[13]
In March 2011, Williams was appointed to the President's Management Advisory Board, which was assembled by U.S. President Barack Obama.[14] He served in that capacity until 2017. He serves on the board of the Peterson Center on Healthcare board of advisors,[15] the Peterson Institute for International Economics[16]
In 2013 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[17] an independent, multidisciplinary policy research center.
Early business career
Prior to joining Aetna, Williams served as group president, and president of WellPoint (now Anthem), having joined WellPoint's predecessor firm, Blue Cross of California, in 1987. Previously, he was co-founder of Visa Health Corp. and group marketing executive of Control Data Corporation.[12]
Education
Williams holds a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Roosevelt University and a Master of Business Administration from the MIT Sloan School of Management.[18]
Awards and honors
- Modern Healthcare magazine's "100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare 2009"[19]
- Black Enterprise magazine's "100 Most Powerful Executives in Corporate America, 2009"[20]
- Institutional Investor magazine's 2009 "America's Best CEOs Health Care – Managed Care category"[21]
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