Will Conaway,
    Executive Thought Leader and Strategist

 #peopleareyourbestcapital

Will is a greatly respected executive leader in healthcare, organizational strategy, operations, negotiations, mergers and acquisitions, leadership, international business, information technology, executive mentoring, and consulting. He is recognized for resolving extremely complex and high-visibility issues. He has held the titles of Chief Growth Officer, Chief Information Officer, Chief of Staff, and Chief Operating Officer.

He is currently the Chief Growth Officer for The HCI Group/Tech Mahindra, focusing on the organization's business growth and technology product and services direction. Will has an extensive career history demonstrating his long-term commitments to the organizations for which he works. He has held several multi-year engagements with three of the nation's largest healthcare organizations: Providence Health & Services, Dignity Health, and Prime Healthcare. Additionally, his endeavors with the Precision Medicine and clinical research Alliance joint venture between Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives were integral to advancements in patient outcomes.

Concurrent with his executive roles in healthcare, Will teaches at Cornell University and eCornell, working with masters-level students in the fields of leadership, strategy, human resource strategy, and healthcare. He began in 2011. He teaches courses in The Executive Masters in Human Resources at Cornell’s ILR School, The Executive Masters in Healthcare Administration at Cornell’s Sloan College of Human Ecology, and The Executive Master of Public Administration program at Cornell’s Brooks Public Policy with a focus on government employees.

Will is recognized for his continuing contributions to strategic planning and innovation in healthcare and is a highly sought-after subject matter expert, speaking at universities and technology councils across the country. He has been a featured speaker at graduations and events at Cornell University and Kansas State University. Will was a panelist at the prestigious Roundtable on the State of Healthcare and Technology in the U.S., hosted by Harvard Business School and athenahealth. He also emceed and moderated the CIO & CISO Southern California Summit in 2020.

Will's service on boards and councils includes: • AEHIT Board at CHIME (current) • Chair of the CHIME Communication Committee (current) • Forbes Technology Council, and has participated in several of the invitation-only Forbes Healthcare Summits (past) • Chair of the Kansas State University Psychology Sciences Alumni Advisory Council (past) • American Heart Association's Executive Leadership Team for their annual Heart & Stroke Ball in Los Angeles (past) • The Board of Governors at the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH-government related) (past) • The Manifest MedEx Advisory Committee (HIE-government related) (past) • AT&T's Healthcare Advisory Council (past) • Verizon's Healthcare, Insurance, and Life Sciences Customer Advisory Board (past) • Fast Company Executive Board (past)

Will is a recipient of Constellation's Business Transformation 150 (BT150) for 2020 & 2022 Award for Recognized Exemplar of Leadership in Driving a Digital Future, and Becker's Hospital Review's 100 Hospital and Health System CIOs to Know for 2019.

Will has appeared in leading industry magazines, including an interview with Martha Heller for the feature of a Movers and Shakers blog, American Healthcare Leader magazine, and HealthTech magazine, and is frequently quoted in Becker's Hospital Review and the Forbes security and technology blogs. He was spotlighted in the September 2019 Business Chief and Gigabit magazine issues. He was a panelist on the “top listened to podcast,” the Becker Group C-Suite Report (2020 and 2021) Will presented at The Cornell University's Leadership Symposium in (May 2022).