William Hughson

President, Medical and Healthcare Group, DeVry Inc.
Senior Vice President, DeVry Inc.

William Hughson is President of the Medical and Healthcare group at DeVry Inc.

DeVry's purpose is to empower its students to achieve their educational and career goals. DeVry (NYSE: DV, member S&P 500 Index) is a global provider of educational services and the parent organization of Advanced Academics, Becker Professional Education, the Carrington Colleges, Chamberlain College of Nursing, DeVry Brasil, DeVry University, and Ross University Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. These institutions offer a wide array of programs in business, healthcare and technology and serve students in secondary through postsecondary education as well as accounting and finance professionals.

Hughson joined DeVry in 2009 as president of the Medical and Healthcare group, which includes Chamberlain College of Nursing, Ross University, Western Career College and Apollo College.

Hughson joined DeVry from DaVita Inc., a leading provider of dialysis services in the United States.  At DaVita, he managed a wide number of business units including co-founding DaVita at Home, and founding DaVita Rx.  Prior to that, he headed Ultra Lucca from 1997-1999, which under his guidance, rebranded itself A.G. Ferrari Foods and more than doubled in size.  Previously, Hughson was president and chief financial officer of Noah’s New York Bagels, which he helped to grow from one to 39 stores.  Hughson began his career in the Capital Markets Division of Morgan Stanley in 1986 and subsequently worked at Bain & Company in 1990.

He received his bachelor’s degree in English from Williams College and graduated from the Stanford Graduate School of Business with a master’s in business administration.