the Committee for Economic Development, a non-profit, non-partisan, business-led public policy organization. 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. 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. External activities, awards and recognition Williams continues to appear in the news media. During his career, Williams has received media recognition and other awards including: Modern Healthcare magazine's "100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare 2009" Black Enterprise magazine's "100 Most Powerful Executives in Corporate America, 2009" Institutional Investor magazine's 2009 "America's Best CEOs Health Care Managed Care category" References External links Aetna Inc. WSJ CEO Council 2011 Special Report (pdf) How the Experts Would Fix Health Care, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, February 23, 2012 Fix This: Health Care, Bloomberg BusinessWeek Conversation (videos), February 23, 2012 1949 births 20th-century American businesspeople 21st-century American businesspeople Aetna employees American chairpersons of corporations American chief executives of Fortune 500 companies American company founders American Express people American health care chief executives Boeing people Businesspeople from Chicago Businesspeople from Hartford, Connecticut Date of birth missing (living people) Johnson & Johnson people Living people MIT Sloan School of Management alumni Roosevelt University alumni Peterson Institute for International Economics