President & Chief Executive Officer

Sean Sullivan, JD

Sean Sullivan is co-founder, President and CEO of the Institute for Health and Productivity Management –a global enterprise working with employers to improve their employees’health and maximize its impact on business performance.  Health and productivity management is emerging as the only health delivery model that can maximize employers’return on their investment in workers’health.

Since its founding in 1997 the Institute has served as the catalyst and champion of an expanding international movement to make health a leading human capital asset for the 21st century.

Prior to founding the Institute, Mr. Sullivan was the original President and CEO of the National Business Coalition on Health, and also spent ten years as a Washington-based health policy analyst –as a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, and as Executive Vice President of New Directions for Policy.  He is the author of articles and monographs on health policy and health care market trends, and has testified on these subjects before Congress and state legislatures. 

Mr. Sullivan is Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly magazine Health & Productivity Management, is on the editorial boards of Managed Health Care, Disease Management, and Managed Healthcare Executive, and is a reviewer for the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.  He speaks nationally and internationally on health and productivity management as a leading business strategy for the modern knowledge-based economy.

Mr. Sullivan holds degrees in economics from Harvard, and law from Stanford.

Senior Vice-President & Chief Financial Officer

W.C. Williams, III, MD, FAAFP

Dr. Bill Williams is co-founder and Senior Vice President of the Institute for Health and Productivity Management (IHPM) -- focusing his efforts on engaging the medical provider community in the Institute's mission of establishing and promoting the vital relationship between employees' health and their performance as an investment in corporate success.

Dr. Williams began his medical career as a solo family practitioner in rural Virginia.  Concerned with improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of the office practice -- and with a direct interest in realizing the benefits of a practice model driven by managed care -- he subsequently served as a medical director for two health plans, Humana and then Prudential, in Richmond.

Dr. Williams founded the National Association of Managed Care Physicians (NAMCP) in 1991, to create an association to educate physicians, patients, allied health care professionals, employers and insurance carriers about managed care -- and stimulate physician involvement in it.  He then co-founded IHPM in 1997.

Dr. Williams founded the peer-reviewed Journal of Managed Care Medicine, is on the editorial board of Managed Health Care magazine, and edits a physician leader column in Health & Productivity Management magazine. 

Dr. Williams received both his Bachelors and Masters degrees in biology from the University of Richmond, and earned his medical degree in 1978 from the Medical College of Virginia -- completing his residency with Blackstone Family Practice in Blackstone, Virginia in 1981.

Executiver Vice-President & Chief Operating Officer

Deborah Love

Deborah Love is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Institute for Health and Productivity Management (IHPM) and General Manager of the Academy for Health and Productivity Management (AHPM) - the teaching arm of the Institute.  Deborah came to the Institute in 2001 with 20 years experience in operations from management of a small transit company, an international printing company and electronic architectural desgin firm.   Deborah also brings experience as an entrepreneur for her 10 year art business and employment as an administrator of state and federal funds for Lynchburg College.

Deborah has worked for more than 37 years in the public and private sectors sharing her job responsibilities in the workplace with those as a caregiver after the birth of her son, born with a degenerative heart disease and brain injury from lack of oxygen after birth, required her constant attention.  She now has organized a non-for-profit foundation to help serve the needs of working caregivers.