William F. McConnell Jr. (Bill) is Senior Vice President Administration CRM at Boston Scientific Corporation.
Prior to his current assignment Bill was Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Guidant Corporatin.
Previously Bill was Managing Partner Business Consulting in the Indianapolis office of Arthur Andersen LLP. He joined Arthur Andersen in 1971 as a staff member involved in consulting with clients in the planning design and implementation of information systems. Bill was promoted to manager in 1975 and then was admitted as a Partner in Arthur Andersen in 1981. He became the Managing Partner Andersen Consulting in Indianapolis in 1983 and ran the Indiana practice for the firm for the next six years. In 1989 he left Andersen to join Resort Condominiums International (RCI) as Chief Financial Officer. He spent a year as CFO was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in 1990 and spent the next six years running North American operations for RCI. He became Information Officer/Worldwide for RCI in 1996. He left RCI in 1997 when it was acquired by HFS and rejoined Arthur Andersen in 1997.
Bill serves as a board member of the Global Healthcare Exchange Vesalius Ventures and Board of Governors of the National American Red Cross. He is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Trustee Leadership Development and Honorary Trustee of the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. He is also a board member of the Information Technology Committee of Community Hospitals of Indianapolis Inc. the Indiana University Information Technology Advancement Council and ex officio member of the Board of Directors for the American Red Cross of Greater Indianapolis.
Bill received a B.S. degree from Miami University in Oxford Ohio. He majored in Systems Analysis and he is also a Certified Public Accountant. |