As Senior Vice President of Hilton Supply Management, LLC., Bill is the senior executive of Hilton’s wholly owned procurement company and their most senior African American executive. His role positions him in Hilton’s Senior Leadership Group, the top 75 business executives within Hilton’s $25 billion global enterprise. He manages over 150 Team Members globally.
Serving on the Executive Board of Directors for the National Minority Supplier Development Council, and previously holding board roles with the National Urban League and United Way, Bill has engrossed himself within the diverse community in order to lend his years of expertise to growing WMBE suppliers. He was recognized in 2015 by Minority Business News USA for “Best of the Decade” with a focus on leadership and inclusion.
His other recent achievements include being named in “Top 100 Most Influential Blacks in Corporate America” in 2012/2014/2015, being a recipient of the 2015 Corporate Procurement Leadership Award by the USPAACC as well as recognition by Black Enterprise and also being recently quoted in Fortune Magazine as a leading voice for Supplier Diversity. Under his leadership, Hilton Worldwide has been recognized as a “Top 10 companies for Supplier Diversity” by Diversity, Inc. in 2013, 2014, & 2015.