P. Douglas Wilson

Mr. P. Douglas Wilson is senior vice president and chief human resources officer at Hillenbrand, Inc. He was named a Senior Fellow of the Trinity Forum in 2006.

He is also the founder and Chairman of Cricket Knoll Equity, a multi-disciplinary thought studio. Prior to his current positions, Mr. Wilson was vice president, Worldwide Merger Integration for Boston Scientific Corporation. He was named to this role upon the close of the merger of Guidant Corporation and Boston Scientific in April 2006. Mr. Wilson had joined Guidant in 2002 and was the senior human resources officer of the corporation during the time of the highly publicized auction between Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific. Guidant had been named as one of “America’s Most Admired Companies,” a multi-year recipient of “100 Best Companies to Work For” and was recognized by Business Ethics magazine as among the 100 Best Corporate Citizens in 2005.

Prior to Guidant, Mr. Wilson served as president of Ronald Blue & Co., a nationally recognized advisory firm providing financial planning, investment management, estate, tax and philanthropic counsel. The privately held firm has in excess of $4 billion under management.

Before assuming his responsibility with Ronald Blue & Co., Mr. Wilson had a twenty-year career with Eli Lilly and Company where he held numerous executive positions spanning multiple business units and geographies. Among these were Lilly Research Laboratories, the Pharmaceutical Products Group, the Medical Device and Diagnostics Division and Eli Lilly International Corporation (London, UK).

Mr. Wilson serves with a number of local, national, and international organizations, among which are the board of Trustees of the Sagamore Institute for Policy Research and the board of directors of Heritage Christian School. In addition, he chairs the US–Sino Center for Executive Leadership.

He attended Ball State University, where he earned a BS in 1974 and an MS in 1980. He is a 1987 graduate of the Babson College consortium for executive development. He and his wife, Jayne Ann (Katterhenry) live in Carmel, Indiana.