Board of Trustees
Glenn Williams brings nearly five decades of experience in marketing, communications and media management to the Wilmington College Trustees Board. He began his career as a reporter with The Cincinnati Enquirer before moving to the advertising agency business, where his roles included Vice President and Creative Director with an agency serving national and regional clients in both consumer and business markets. Glenn joined The Iams Company in 1990 and helped lead its growth to a billion-dollar company through work in various roles including Director of Marketing, North America. When Iams was acquired by Procter & Gamble, he remained with P&G, moving through a number of roles including Senior Director of Communications. His assignments at P&G covered several brands as well as medical influencer communications and U.S. media management for the company’s work at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. He retired from P&G in 2015, and now consults in marketing and communication strategy and has served as Director of Communications for a large Cincinnati church. Glenn is a member of the Cincinnati Monthly Meeting where he has served on the Trustees and currently is treasurer. Glenn also represents the Wilmington Yearly Meeting on the Friends World Committee for Consultation where he works with the finance committee and clerks the investment subcommittee. He is a 1975 graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and holds a B.A. in English/Journalism. Glenn was the winner of the Gilson Wright Award as the University’s outstanding senior journalism student.
Glenn is a recovering watch collector, having spent many hours hunched over a workbench repairing timepieces, some of which actually worked afterwards. He lives in Cold Spring, Kentucky with his spouse of 49 years, Elaine. Glenn and Elaine are parents of two daughters and have five grandchildren.