inducted 2006

Clifford W. Illig is Vice Chairman and co-founder of Cerner Corporation. In this role, Mr. Illig focuses on growing and expanding Cerner’s market-oriented business units, key strategic relationships and priority corporate initiatives.

Mr. Illig’s keen business sense was instrumental in the company’s initial public stock offering in 1986, secondary public offering in 1995 and three two-for-one stock splits.

Mr. Illig served as the initial force behind Cerner’s internal operations, including its leading-edge communication and information systems technology, client service methodologies and sales and marketing strategies. Mr. Illig recognized early on that the ability to communicate and share information within the enterprise is as essential to Cerner as it is to any of its clients. Under Mr. Illig’s leadership, Cerner set a standard for the use of enterprise-wide technology to achieve seamless communication and information sharing throughout the organization.

Mr. Illig also played a key role in the design of Cerner’s Cerner Millennium®, which uses advanced technologies to automate the process of managing health along the full continuum of care. The Cerner Millennium architecture collects clinical data as a by-product of the care process for use in electronic medical records and for bench-marking outcomes. Cerner Millennium also enables Cerner clients to benefit from a seamless flow of clinical information across multiple clinical disciplines and among geographically diverse locations.

Currently, Mr. Illig serves as a member of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and the Executive Committee of the Heart of America Council of Boy Scouts of America. In 1991, the Ernst & Young accounting firm honored Mr. Illig, along with Cerner Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Neal L. Patterson, as Entrepreneurs of the Year. Prior to co-founding Cerner in 1979, Mr. Illig was a system consultant and manager with Arthur Andersen & Co. in Kansas City, Mo. He is a graduate of the University of Kansas with a degree in accounting and business administration.

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