William P. Whitely

Executive Vice President, Marketing

Bill Whitely serves as the Executive Vice President of Marketing for both Ingenix and its sister company OptumHealth. At Ingenix and OptumHealth his focus is on organizing the broad assets of these companies to best serve the informatics and care management needs of employers, health plans, government programs, physicians, and hospitals.

Over the last 20 years, Whitely has worked as both a consultant and a manager to help leading health care organizations accelerate growth. He began his career as a benefit consultant at Price Waterhouse where he helped large employers increase productivity and decrease cost. He also worked in strategy consulting at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) with a focus on growth strategies.

In 1999, Whitely moved from consulting to management. He served as Chief Executive Officer of UnitedHealthcare of Illinois, where he led the turnaround of the health plan's operations and a revitalization of its commercial membership growth. He then moved to a national job with UnitedHealthcare where he served as Senior Vice President of Product, Network, and Clinical Strategies and launched the national ChoicePlus network.

Whitely joined Ingenix in 2005 and OptumHealth in 2007. Whitely holds an undergraduate degree in history and an MBA in finance and statistics from the University of Chicago.