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William Childs

Area(s) of Expertise: Management, International, Marketing, Sales
Key Industries: Healthcare

Experience

Managing Director, The Syverson Group: Retained executive search firm specializing in global talent acquisition for Board, C-level, President, VP, GM and Director level engagements.  Industry focus in medical device/ pharmaceuticals. Extensive experience recruiting talent and coaching executives for career/ job positioning, resume tailoring, interviewing, employment contract negotiations.  Represented both the company (client) and the candidates for jobs. 

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Vice President, Commercial Operations, Americas: Responsible for leading a team of sales, marketing, distribution, finance, technical services, customer services, corporate accounts, human resources personnel with P&L accountability for a $250M tissue diagnostics business in North America, Central and South America. 

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Vice President, Global Marketing: Led an organization responsible for the business long-range strategic plan, annual operating plan, business development, product line development – both upstream and downstream marketing – worldwide for a division representing annual revenue of $400M. 

Abbott Laboratories, Diagnostics Division, Director Commercial Operations, Latin America & Canada: Led organization of 500 employees for the area commercial operations with business functions of marketing, sales, scientific leadership, regulatory, IT, training, finance to drive growth and profitability. 

Education
  • MBA, Thunderbird School of International Business (now part of Arizona State University), Phoenix, AZ
  • BA, William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Other
  • Lived in Europe, Asia, Latin America and US.  Countries lived outside US include Argentina, Egypt, India, Greece, Mexico, Germany.  Speaks Spanish fluently.
  • Published a book in 2020:  “American Exodus from Nasser’s Nile” a true story about the American Embassy staff evacuation from Cairo, Egypt during the 1967 Arab-Israeli “6 day war” from an account written by his father, mothballed and then discovered by his son posthumously.