Dr. William Pence, Ph.D.
Overview
William Pence joined WebMD as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer in November 2007. Before joining WebMD, Dr. Pence had served as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President at Napster since 2003. From 2000 to 2003, Dr. Pence was the Chief Technology Officer for Universal Music Group's online initiatives and for the pressplay joint venture with Sony. That joint venture later served as the basis for the relaunched Napster service. Previously Dr. Pence spent more than a decade at IBM, where he held various technology management positions in Research as well as in the Software Division, focused on guiding research and development and commercializing technology for IBM product divisions. Dr. Pence received a B.S. degree in Physics from the University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.
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