People: Cerner Corp (CERN.O)

Summary

Name	Age	Since	Current Position
Neal Patterson	63	2010	Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer
Clifford Illig	62	1999	Vice Chairman of the Board
Marc Naughton	57	2010	Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President
Michael Nill	48	2011	Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President
Zane Burke	47	2011	Executive Vice President - Client Organization
Jeffrey Townsend	49	2005	Chief - Staff, Executive Vice President
Randy Sims	52	2011	Chief Legal Officer, Senior Vice President, Secretary
Julia Wilson	50	2007	Chief People Officer, Senior Vice President
William Neaves	69		Lead Independent Director
Gerald Bisbee	70	1988	Independent Director
Denis Cortese	69	2011	Independent Director
John Danforth	76	2005	Independent Director
Linda Dillman	56	2010	Independent Director
William Zollars	65	2005	Independent Director
Allan Kells			Primary IR Contact

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Biographies

Name	Description
Neal Patterson	Mr. Neal L. Patterson is Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer of Cerner Corporation since 1980. He is a co-founder of the Company. Mr. Patterson has been Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of the Company for more than five years. Mr. Patterson has served as President of the Company since July 2010, a position he also held from March 1999 until August 1999.
Clifford Illig	Mr. Clifford W. Illig is Vice Chairman of the Board of Cerner Corporation. Mr. Illig has been a Director of the Company since 1980 and is a co-founder of the Company. He was appointed Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors in March 1999. Mr. Illig previously served as Chief Operating Officer of the Company until October 1998 and as President of the Company until March 1999. Mr. Illig is also a member of the Board of Directors of The Stowers Institute.
Marc Naughton	Mr. Marc G. Naughton is Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President of Cerner Corporation. Mr. Naughton joined the Company in November 1992 as Manager of Taxes. In November 1995 he was named Chief Financial Officer and in February 1996 he was promoted to Vice President. He was promoted to Senior Vice President in March 2002 and promoted to Executive Vice President in March 2010.
Michael Nill	Mr. Michael R. Nill is Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President of Cerner Corporation. He joined the Company in November 1996. Since that time he has held several positions in the Technology, Intellectual Property and CernerWorks Client Hosting Organizations. He was promoted to Vice President in January 2000, promoted to Senior Vice President in April 2006 and promoted to Executive Vice President and named Chief Engineering Officer in February 2009. Mr. Nill was appointed Chief Operating Officer in May 2011.
Zane Burke	Mr. Zane M. Burke is Executive Vice President - Client Organization of Cerner Corporation. He joined the Company in September 1996. Since that time, he has held a variety of client-facing sales, implementation and support roles, including Corporate Controller and Vice President of Finance. He was promoted to President of the Company’s West region in 2002 and U.S. General Manager for client relationships in 2007. He was further promoted to Executive Vice President - Client Organization in May 2011.
Jeffrey Townsend	Mr. Jeffrey A. Townsend is Chief - Staff, Executive Vice President of Cerner Corporation. He joined the Company in June 1985. Since that time he has held several positions in the Intellectual Property Organization and was promoted to Vice President in February 1997. He was appointed Chief Engineering Officer in March 1998, promoted to Senior Vice President in March 2001, named Chief of Staff in July 2003 and promoted to Executive Vice President in March 2005.
Randy Sims	Mr. Randy D. Sims is Chief Legal Officer, Senior Vice President, Secretary of Cerner Corporation. He joined the Company in March 1997 as Vice President and Chief Legal Officer and was promoted to Senior Vice President in March 2011. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Sims worked at Farmland Industries, Inc. for three years where he last served as Associate General Counsel. Prior to Farmland, Mr. Sims was in-house legal counsel at The Marley Company for seven years, holding the position of Assistant General Counsel when he left to join Farmland.
Julia Wilson	Ms. Julia M. Wilson is Chief People Officer, Senior Vice President of Cerner Corporation. She joined the Company in November 1995. Since that time, she has held several positions in the Functional Group Organization. She was promoted to Vice President and Chief People Officer in August 2003 and to Senior Vice President in March 2007.
William Neaves	Dr. William B. Neaves, Ph.D., is Lead Independent Director of Cerner Corporation. Dr. Neaves has been a Director of the Company since March 2001. From June 2000 through June 2010, Dr. Neaves served as the Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors of The Stowers Institute for Medical Research, which conducts basic research on genes and proteins that control fundamental processes in living cells in the hope of unlocking the mysteries of disease and finding keys to their cause, treatment and prevention. Dr. Neaves continues as a member of the Board of Directors of The Stowers Institute in his current position as President Emeritus. He also served as President of The Stowers Institute from June 2000 through July 2009. For twenty years prior to joining The Stowers Institute in 2000, he served in various leadership positions at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. He served in succession as Dean of the University of Texas Southwestern Graduate School, Dean of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, and Chief Academic Officer and holder of the Wildenthal Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Science at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Neaves is presently a member of the Board of Trustees of Washington University in St. Louis and the National Council of the Washington University School of Medicine and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Gerald Bisbee	Dr. Gerald E. Bisbee, Jr., Ph.D., is Independent Director of Cerner Corporation since February 1988. Dr. Bisbee is the co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Health Management Academy, which provides an open environment for the senior executives of the country's health systems and corporations to exchange practices and benchmarking data, focused on increasing the quality, appropriateness and efficiency of care. From 1998 to September 2011, Dr. Bisbee was President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of ReGen Biologics, Inc. ("ReGen"), which develops, manufactures and markets orthopedic tissue repair products worldwide. Dr. Bisbee was a Director of Aros Corporation (formerly known as APACHE Medical Systems, Inc.) commencing in December 1989, serving as Chairman of the Board from December 1989 to November 1997 and from December 2000 to June 2002, when ReGen and Aros Corporation merged. ReGen filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in April 2011 and substantially all of the business and assets of ReGen were purchased by Sports Medicine Holdings Company, LLC in June 2011. Prior to 1989, Dr. Bisbee was Director of the Healthcare Group at Kidder, Peabody & Co., President of the Hospital Research and Educational Trust and also was a faculty member of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University.
Denis Cortese	Dr. Denis A. Cortese, M.D., is the Independent Director of Cerner Corporation since May 2011. Dr. Cortese is currently the Emeritus President and Chief Executive Officer of Mayo Clinic, which is a not-for-profit medical practice and medical research group specializing in treating difficult medical issues. From 2002 through November 2009, Dr. Cortese was the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Governors and a Member of the Board of Trustees of Mayo Clinic. Dr. Cortese was also the Chief Executive Officer of Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida from 1999 through 2002 and worked as a physician for the Mayo Clinic from 1976 through 1999. Since January 2010, Dr. Cortese has been a Foundation Professor at Arizona State University ("ASU") in the School of Health Management and Policy, W.P. Carey School of Business and the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, as well as the Director of ASU's Health Care Delivery and Policy Program. He is also the President of the Healthcare Transformation Institute based in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Cortese is currently a board member of the Essence Group, Pinnacle West Capital Corporation and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health System, and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.). Dr. Cortese was the chair of the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine from 2006 to 2009 and served as chair of the Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care from 2009 to 2010. He was a member of the Board of the Healthcare Leadership Council from 2003 to 2009, serving as board chair for two of those years. Dr. Cortese previously served as a member of the Harvard/Kennedy Health Policy Group and the Division of Engineering and Physical Sciences of the National Research Council and RAND Health. He is an honorary member of the Academia Nacional de Medicina (Mexico) and the Royal College of Physicians (London).
John Danforth	Mr. John C. Danforth is Independent Director of Cerner Corporation. Mr. Danforth was a Director of the Company from May 1996 through June 2004 when he resigned to serve as Ambassador to the United Nations. Mr. Danforth served as an Ambassador to the United Nations from July 2004 through January 2005. Mr. Danforth was re-appointed by the Board as a Director of the Company in February 2005. Mr. Danforth represented the State of Missouri in the U.S. Senate for 18 years until 1995 and served as a Director of The Dow Chemical Company and MetLife, Inc. until June 2004. Mr. Danforth is presently a partner in the law firm of Bryan Cave LLP, serves on the Commission on Presidential Debates and is a Director of Greenhill & Co.
Linda Dillman	Ms. Linda M. Dillman is Independent Director of Cerner Corp since May 2010. Since January 2012, she has been Chief Information Officer for QVC, Inc., one of the multimedia retailers in the world, broadcasting live 24 hours a day, 364 days a year. Prior to joining QVC, Inc., Ms. Dillman was Senior Vice President of Enterprise Services/Global Functions IT for Hewlett-Packard Company, a global provider of products, technologies, software, solutions and services to individual consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and enterprises, including customers in the government, health and education sectors, from August 2009 through January 2012. From April 2006 through July 2009, Ms. Dillman was Executive Vice President of Benefits and Risk Management for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., and prior to that, from August 2002 to April 2006, she held the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. She held various positions within Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. from 1991-2002.
William Zollars	Mr. William D. Zollars is Independent Director of Cerner Corporation since May 2005. He is the former Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of YRC Worldwide (now known as YRC Freight), which position he held from November 1999 to July 2011. YRC Worldwide provides transportation and global logistics services. Mr. Zollars served as President of Yellow Transportation, Inc. from September 1996 through November 1999. From 1994 to 1996, Mr. Zollars was Senior Vice President of Ryder Integrated Logistics, and prior to that, Mr. Zollars held various executive positions with Eastman Kodak. Mr. Zollars serves on the boards of CIGNA Corporation and Prologis, Inc. Mr. Zollars also serves on the boards of United Way of Greater Kansas City and The Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.
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Basic Compensation

Name	Fiscal Year Total
Neal Patterson	5,883,650
Clifford Illig	420,853
Marc Naughton	2,264,990
Michael Nill	3,525,340
Zane Burke	4,003,100
Jeffrey Townsend	3,525,340
Randy Sims	--
Julia Wilson	--
William Neaves	--
Gerald Bisbee	--
Denis Cortese	--
John Danforth	--
Linda Dillman	--
William Zollars	--
Allan Kells	--

As Of 28 Dec 2012

Options Compensation

Name	Options	Value
Neal Patterson	1,089,000	32,777,770
Clifford Illig	255,000	0
Marc Naughton	54,168	3,430,150
Michael Nill	45,000	2,640,420
Zane Burke	70,000	3,838,620
Jeffrey Townsend	338,380	11,016,160
Randy Sims	0	0
Julia Wilson	0	0
William Neaves	0	0
Gerald Bisbee	0	0
Denis Cortese	0	0
John Danforth	0	0
Linda Dillman	0	0
William Zollars	0	0
Allan Kells	0	0

Insider Trading

Name	Shares Traded	Price
CORTESE DENIS A	1,000	$98.00
ZOLLARS WILLIAM D	2,400	$0.00
CORTESE DENIS A	2,400	$0.00
NEAVES WILLIAM B	2,400	$0.00
DILLMAN LINDA M	2,400	$0.00
DANFORTH JOHN CLABBETT	2,400	$0.00
BISBEE GERALD E JR	2,400	$0.00
CORTESE DENIS A	1,066	$0.00
DILLMAN LINDA M	1,334	$0.00
CORTESE DENIS A	2,800	$0.00
DANFORTH JOHN CLABBETT	2,800	$0.00
ZOLLARS WILLIAM D	5,270	$95.60
CORTESE DENIS A	2,800	$0.00
NEAVES WILLIAM B	2,800	$0.00
DANFORTH JOHN CLABBETT	2,800	$0.00
NEAVES WILLIAM B	2,800	$0.00
PATTERSON NEAL L	15,000	$97.05
WILSON JULIE M	14,000	$26.91
WILSON JULIE M	14,000	$96.61
PATTERSON NEAL L	2,500	$95.50
PATTERSON NEAL L	2,500	$95.35
PATTERSON NEAL L	2,500	$95.29
TOWNSEND JEFFREY A	10,056	$94.05
TOWNSEND JEFFREY A	10,056	$10.50
TOWNSEND JEFFREY A	23,116	$10.50

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