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Ron Williams

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Ron Williams
Born1949 (age 76–77)[citation needed]
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
EducationRoosevelt University (BA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MBA)

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.

Williams is the author of Learning to Lead: The Journey to Leading Yourself, Leading Others, and Leading an Organization.

Business leadership

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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]

Aetna leadership

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Williams joined Aetna in 2001 and became its president and a member of its board in 2002. He became CEO in February 2006 and chairman in October of that year. He served as both chairman and CEO until November 2010 and as chairman until April 2011. During Williams’ tenure at Aetna, the company’s financial performance improved substantially; between 2001 and 2006, Aetna went from a $266 million loss to $1.7 billion in earnings.[9][10]

Public service

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Williams serves on MIT's North America Executive Board.[11]

In March 2011, Williams was appointed to the President's Management Advisory Board, which was assembled by U.S. President Barack Obama.[12] He served in that capacity until 2017. He serves on the board of the Peterson Center on Healthcare board of advisors,[13] the Peterson Institute for International Economics[14]

In 2013 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[15] an independent, multidisciplinary policy research center.

Early business career

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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.[16]

Education

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Williams holds a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Roosevelt University and a Master of Business Administration from the MIT Sloan School of Management.[17]

Awards and honors

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References

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  1. ↑ "Clayton Dubilier & Rice, LLC – Building Businesses, Building Value". cdr-inc.com. April 30, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Our Team". Agilon Health. Retrieved July 28, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Board of Trustees of The Conference Board". www.conference-board.org. Retrieved July 28, 2017.
  4. ↑ "External Advisory Group | McKinsey & Company". www.mckinsey.com. Retrieved February 13, 2023.
  5. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on February 4, 2012. Retrieved February 25, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ↑ "AETNA CHAIRMAN AND CEO WILLIAMS ELECTED CAQH BOARD CHAIRMAN". CAQH. March 27, 2015. Archived from the original on March 10, 2013. Retrieved February 25, 2012.
  7. ↑ "CEO Council – Wall Street Journal CEO Council Page". wsj.com.
  8. ↑ "Healthymagination". healthymagination.com.
  9. ↑ Whelan, David. "Aetna's Ron Williams on Health Reform". Forbes. Retrieved August 19, 2026.
  10. ↑ "form10k.htm". www.sec.gov. Retrieved August 19, 2026.
  11. ↑ "Executive Boards". mit.edu. Archived from the original on April 29, 2012. Retrieved February 25, 2012.
  12. ↑ "Sam Gilliland". whitehouse.gov. Archived from the original on January 21, 2017 – via National Archives.
  13. ↑ "Accelerating the Transformation of Healthcare".
  14. ↑ "IIE Board of Directors". piie.com. March 9, 2016.
  15. ↑ "member, National Academy of Arts and Sciences" (PDF).
  16. ↑ "Official Bio". ronwilliams.net. Archived from the original on February 13, 2012.
  17. ↑ "Ronald A. Williams - MBA Program". Archived from the original on March 3, 2012. Retrieved February 25, 2012.
  18. ↑ "26. Ronald Williams – 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare – 2009 – Modern Healthcare". Modern Healthcare.
  19. ↑ "The 100 Most Powerful Executives In Corporate America". Black Enterprise. Archived from the original on February 9, 2012.
  20. ↑ "Aetna's CEO Williams Tops Industry List for "America's Best CEOs"". Archived from the original on June 28, 2009. Retrieved February 25, 2012.
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