Bill serves as the Chief Technology Officer and Director of Information Services for Dayton Children’s since June 2022. Previously Bill served 25 years in the U.S. Air Force as a healthcare administrator specializing in health information technology. After retirement he led a project to build Alaska’s first health information exchange (HIE) and later was the operations manager for Alaska Medicaid for over five years. Bill has an MBA and M.S. in Information Systems from Mississippi State University and also holds an M.S. in Operations Management from the University of Arkansas. Bill is a board-certified Fellow with the American College of Healthcare Executives and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

Katherine Margard serves as executive assistant to senior leadership at OhioHealth, one of the largest healthcare systems in Ohio. Executives she’s supported include the Chief Operating Officer, Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, and Regional Market President. She has more than 20 years’ experience working with C-level executives in healthcare, education, and other non-profit organizations.

Katherine is an experienced corporate trainer, speaker at regional, national, and international conferences, and is a regular guest lecturer at a local community college. She proudly helped establish two administrative professionals’ networks and is an enthusiastic advocate for the profession. She’s also always on the hunt for new free quality training resources to stay sharp in trends affecting the administrative profession.