Ruth Williams-Brinkley is the Managing Director of RWB Advisory Services providing strategic and operational support to private equity/investor-owned companies, public, private, and not-for-profit boards, and executive coaching services. She has a unique ability to develop executives and leadership teams to achieve positive, long-term success in growth, operations, and financial performance.

In January 2024, Ms. Williams-Brinkley retired as President of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States, where she led all of Kaiser Permanente's care delivery and health plan operations in Washington, D.C., suburban Maryland, Baltimore, and Northern Virginia. She joined Kaiser Permanente in 2017 as President of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals of the Northwest, in Portland, Oregon. Prior to joining Kaiser, Ms. Williams-Brinkley served as CEO of KentuckyOne Health, an affiliate of CommonSpirit Health, from 2011 to 2017, as President and CEO of Carondelet Health Network in Tucson, Arizona, an affiliate of Ascension Health, from 2008 to 2011, and as President and CEO of Memorial Health Care System of Chattanooga, Tennessee, an affiliate of CommonSpirit Health, from 2002 to 2008. Currently Ms. Williams-Brinkley serves on the boards of Travere Pharmaceuticals, Natera, Inc., the University of Phoenix, and on the not-for-profit Boards of DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, and Allina Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Previously, she served as a member of the Board of Directors of Results Physiotherapy, a private care delivery company until it was acquired by Upstream Rehabilitation in 2021, and Chattem, Inc. until it was acquired by Sanofi in 2009. Earlier in her career, Ms. Williams-Brinkley held various nursing staff and management roles of increasing responsibility. Ms. Williams-Brinkley received her B.S. and Master of Science in Nursing from DePaul University, an honorary doctoral degree from Spaulding University, Louisville, Kentucky, and is a Life Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.