Bill Gray

Social workers go to school to learn how to strengthen individuals and families. Yet when they get into the field, they spend more time filling out forms and scanning documents than doing actual social work. Bill Gray has worked since day one to find ways to reduce the time it takes social workers to manage routine tasks, so they can spend more time helping people.

One of the company’s first employees, Bill is the bridge between Northwoods’ past and future, ensuring they never lose their founding focus on making frontline workers’ lives easier. Today, as vice president of financial analysis, this means combining historical perspective with projections and planning models so that they can continue to invest in new and better solutions for their customers.

Bill also applies Northwoods’ outward approach to business—observing customers to identify ways they can be more efficient—inwardly to streamline financial processes and improve collaboration between teams, from sales to support and everyone in between. The better they work together, the bigger the impact they can have on the organizations they help.