Council Details

Bill is currently the Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Management at Henry Ford Healthcare System. In his role Bill has responsibilities over all supply chain functions, including but not limited to: Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Diversity, Purchasing, Accounts Payable, Linen, Systems & Analytics, Supply Chain Operations, Distribution & Logistics.

Prior to joining Henry Ford, Bill held the Vice President of Supply Chain Operations role at Advocate Aurora Health. In this role Bill was instrumental in leading COVID response efforts and supply reliability response. In addition to COVID response, he has led healthcare supply chain initiatives related supply expense reduction, process standardization (lean), strategy development, and customer engagement activities, to name a few. He has also held supply chain leadership roles at both Ascension and Trinity Health respectively. Bill holds undergraduate degrees from Michigan State University and his MBA from University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.

obert Rajalingam has broad management experience across commercial, operational, and technical functions in medical devices, supplies, and healthcare supply chain. He most recently served as President of Cardinal Health’s US Medical Products and Distribution business where he managed over $11.5B in revenue and 10k employees.

Robert led the resurgence of Cardinal Health’s US Medical business while guiding the business through a number of challenges including national COVID response efforts, the largest FDA medical supply recall in industry history, global supply chain challenges, and hyperinflation. From the onset of the pandemic, Robert served as a member of the White House Supply Chain advisory council. In this role he advised HHS, FEMA, DLA, and White House senior leadership on response efforts.

In addition to his P&L and crisis management experience, Robert has extensive experience in strategic plan development and commercial execution. Robert has consistently led these efforts for large business units at Cardinal Health, Medtronic, Covidien, and Smiths Medical.

Robert earned bachelor’s degrees in biomedical engineering and economics from Duke University and a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.

He currently serves on the boards of Nonin Medical and Strategic Marketplace Initiative (SMI).