William Hawkins

Medtronic
Santa Rosa, CA

William A. Hawkins joined the company as Senior Vice President and President of the Medtronic Vascular Business in January 2002. With headquarters in Santa Rosa, Calif., Bill is responsible for all business functions related to the Coronary Vascular, Peripheral Vascular, Neurovascular, Distal Protection and Controlled Release Technologies organizations within Medtronic Vascular. Before joining Medtronic, Bill had served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Novoste Corp. since 1998. Earlier positions included Corporate Vice President and President of the Sherwood Davis and Geck organization of American Home Products, President of the Ethicon Endo-Surgery organization of Johnson & Johnson, President, Devices for Vascular Intervention and U.S. Operations for Guidant Corp., and several increasingly responsible executive positions culminating in the presidency of the Ivac organization for Eli Lilly & Co. He began his medical technology career with Carolina Medical Electronics in 1977. Mr. Hawkins received his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical and biomedical engineering from Duke University in 1976 where he also conducted medical research in pathology. He received a Master of Business Administration Degree from the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, in 1982.