Following his retirement from Aetna, Williams formed RW2 Enterprises, LLC where he coaches and consults with senior corporate executives.

Williams is chairman of The Conference Board[4] and participates with the Committee for Economic Development (CED).

[7] He was an advisor to The Wall Street Journal CEO Council[8] and a former member of the GE Healthymagination Advisory Committee.

[20] In 2013 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[21] an independent, multidisciplinary policy research center, and became a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development, a non-profit, non-partisan, business-led public policy organization.

Previously, he was co-founder of Visa Health Corp. and group marketing executive of Control Data Corporation.

[14] Williams holds a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Roosevelt University and a Master of Business Administration from the MIT Sloan School of Management.