{"618671":{"#nid":"618671","#data":{"type":"event","title":" Bill George - BME Distinguished Speaker","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBill George - BME Distinguished lecture.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWILLIAM W. GEORGE\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSenior Fellow, Harvard Business School\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nFormer Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Medtronic\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETalk title:\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EInnovation Leadership in Biomedicine\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETime: 4:00pm with reception to follow\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDate: Tuesday, April 2nd 2019\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nLocation: Academy of Medicine\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSpeaker: Bill George\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBiography:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nBill George is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Medtronic.\u0026nbsp;He joined Medtronic in 1989 as president and chief operating officer, was chief executive officer from 1991-2001, and board chair from 1996-2002.\u0026nbsp; Earlier in his career, he was a senior executive with Honeywell and Litton Industries and served in the U.S. Department of Defense.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nHe currently serves as a director of Goldman Sachs.\u0026nbsp;He has served recently on the boards of ExxonMobil, Novartis, Target Corporation, Minnesota\u0026rsquo;s Destination Medical Center Corporation and the World Economic Forum USA.\u0026nbsp;Bill is currently a trustee of the Mayo Clinic, and has served as board chair for Allina Health System, Abbott-Northwestern Hospital, United Way of the Greater Twin Cities, and Advamed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nHe was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012. He has been named one of \u0026ldquo;Top 25 Business Leaders of the Past 25 Years\u0026rdquo; by PBS; \u0026ldquo;Executive of the Year-2001\u0026rdquo; by the Academy of Management; and \u0026ldquo;Director of the Year-2001-02\u0026rdquo; by the National Association of Corporate Directors. \u0026nbsp;George is a CNBC Contributor and has made frequent appearances on television and radio.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nHe received his BSIE with high honors from Georgia Tech, his MBA with high distinction from Harvard University, where he was a Baker Scholar, and honorary PhDs from Georgia Tech, Mayo Medical School, University of St. Thomas, Augsburg College and Bryant University.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nParking Information:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nPlease use the Tech Trolley as parking at the Academy of Medicine is limited.\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Talk title Forthcoming"}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2019-03-01 19:08:54","changed_gmt":"2019-03-11 15:48:36","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2019-04-02T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2019-04-02T19:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2019-04-02T19:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2019-04-02 21:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2019-04-02 23:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2019-04-02 23:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1612","name":"BME"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}