Ronald A. Williams
Company: Aetna Inc.
Position: CEO/President
Industry: Health Care
Country: United States
Ronald A. Williams is president and chief executive officer (CEO), effective February 14, 2006 of Aetna Inc. and a member of the company’s Board of Directors. Aetna Inc. is one of the nation's leading providers of health care and related group benefits, serving approximately 15 million health care members. As President, Mr. Williams is responsible for all of Aetna's business operations, including information technology, customer sales and support; service; product development; health care cost and quality initiatives; strategic marketing; network development; and physician, hospital and health care professional relations.
Mr. Williams joined Aetna in March 2001 as Executive Vice President and Chief of Health Operations. He was named President in May 2002. Mr. Williams is a member of the Office of the Chairman – the company’s most senior management governing body.
In October 2003, Mr. Williams was elected to the Board of Directors of Lucent Technologies Inc. and to the Board of Trustees of The Conference Board. Mr. Williams sits on the Dean’s Advisory Council and the Corporate Visiting Committee at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In June 2005, he was elected a member of MIT’s Alfred P. Sloan Management Society.
Prior to joining Aetna, Mr. Williams was Group President of the Large Group Division at WellPoint Health Networks Inc. and President of the company’s Blue Cross of California subsidiary. Mr. Williams joined Blue Cross of California in 1987 and accepted a series of increasingly prominent roles.
Previously, Mr. Williams was a Senior Vice President at Vista Health Corp., group marketing executive at Control Data Corp., and President and co-founder of Integrative Systems.
Mr. Williams is a graduate of Roosevelt University and holds an M.S. in Management from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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