William Paul "Bill" Sommers (July 22, 1933January 7, 2007) was an engineer and business executive of several companies, including

Booz Allen Hamilton Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation (informally Booz Allen) is the parent of Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., an American management and information technology consulting firm, headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in Greater Washington, D.C., with 8 ...

, Iameter, and

SRI International SRI International (SRI) is an American nonprofit scientific research institute and organization headquartered in Menlo Park, California. The trustees of Stanford University established SRI in 1946 as a center of innovation to support economic ...

Education

Sommers was born in Detroit in 1933. He held a Bachelor of Science, a Master of Science in Engineering, and a Ph.D. in engineering and aeronautical engineering, all from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

. Sommers donated a significant amount to his alma mater.

Career

Sommers worked at

for 29 years. He was then executive vice president of Iameter, a health care cost containment company. From 1993 to 1998, he was the CEO of

. While at SRI International, he focused on cost cutting to bring the organization back to profitability.

References

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