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Abbott Park, IL-based Abbott Resigned Preston Simons as Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer
About the Company
At Abbott, we`re committed to helping you live your best possible life through the power of health. For more than 125 years, we`ve brought new products and technologies to the world -- in nutrition, diagnostics, medical devices and branded generic pharmaceuticals -- that create more possibilities for more people at all stages of life. Today, 74,000 of us are working to help people live not just longer, but better, in the more than 150 countries we serve.
About the Person
Prior to joining Aurora, Preston Simons served as chief information officer for Abbott Laboratories for more than 10 years, where he was responsible for all aspects of the IT department which at one time had more than 4,000 employees and IT contractors. He was also accountable for many IT functions at Abbott`s spin-off AbbVie. Prior to that, he served as an IT leader in several health systems, a health insurance plan and in the pharmaceutical industry. In addition to affiliations with a number of health care IT organizations, Simons has had leading roles in the Chicago CIO Institute and other leadership summits. Simons holds a bachelor`s degree in business administration from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a master`s degree from the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago.
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