Jill Willen-Kennelly, SVP, Chief Strategy Officer

Jill Willen-Kennelly, serves as Senior Vice President, Strategy & Business Development/Chief Strategy Officer for SCL Health System and Exempla. She joined SCLHS in June 2008.

Prior to joining SCLHS she was the Senior Vice President, Strategy & Business Development for OhioHealth, Columbus, Ohio. From 2000-2005, Ms. Willen-Kennelly held several senior strategy and business development positions with Tenet Healthcare Corporation. She also was a senior manager in the National Strategy Practice of KPMG from 1993-2000. Prior to joining KPMG, Ms. Willen-Kennelly spent 10 years in not-for-profit and Catholic health systems where she held  a variety of hospital and health system management roles including Catholic Healthcare Partners, Cincinnati, Ohio; Eisenhower Medical Center, Rancho Mirage, California; and Aultman Healthcare, Canton, Ohio.

Ms. Willen-Kennelly is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and The Ohio State University, where she earned a Masters of Healthcare Administration.