Ron Williams

Chairman & CEO of RW2 Enterprises, LLC;
former Chairman & CEO of Aetna Inc.

Ronald A. Williams is chairman and CEO of RW2 Enterprises, LLC and is the former chairman and CEO of Aetna Inc. Williams now focuses on private equity health care value creation, values-based leadership and transformational change. He is operating advisor to private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice, co-founder and chairman of agilon health, chairman of apree health (previously Castlight/ Vera Whole Health). He currently serves as chairman of the Nominating and Governance Committee for Boeing and director at Warby Parker. Williams previously served as lead director of American Express and chair of the compensation committee for Johnson & Johnson. Williams is chairman of the conference board and a member of the President’s Circle of the National Academies. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development. He served on President Obama’s President’s Management Advisory Board from 2011 to 2017. He is a graduate of Roosevelt University and holds an master’s degree in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Williams serves on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s North America executive board, is a member of the business council, and vice chairman of the conference board of trustees. He also serves on the boards of Save the Children and the National Academy Foundation, and is a member of the Peterson Center on Healthcare Advisory Board, RAND Health Advisory Board, and the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Commission on Political Reform (CPR). In 2013, Williams was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an independent, multidisciplinary policy research center founded in 1780.

Prior to joining Aetna, Williams was a member of the Office of the Chairman at WellPoint Health Networks Inc. where he served as group president, and president of the company’s Blue Cross of California subsidiary. Williams joined WellPoint’s predecessor firm Blue Cross of California in 1987.

Williams is a graduate of Roosevelt University and holds a master’s degree in management from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.