Bill Gimson
Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
Executive Director
William “Bill” Gimson brings 35 years of program and administrative experience with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, from where he recently retired as the Chief Operating Officer. At the CDC he had oversight for more than 15,000 employees and an annual budget in excess of $10 billion and worked in partnership with the CDC director and executive leadership to implement a number of strategic initiatives, including re-engineering CDC’s administrative and organizational structure.
Gimson, among other accomplishments, developed the first ever performance measures of CDC’s business indicators, executed an almost 4 million square foot capital improvement plan totaling $1.6 billion dollars, improved agency security and continuity of operations following 9/11, and assisted CDC and the Nation in preparing for an outbreak of pandemic influenza. Mr. Gimson also was one of the first CDC employees to travel to Iraq in 2005, and then later in early 2007 under a USAID-funded project to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Health in strengthening performance management for the Government of Iraq.
Mr. Gimson, who spent his formative years in Texas (Dallas & Houston), holds a master’s degree in business administration from Duke University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
