Our Leadership Team

Bill Burke

CEO and Founder of Merit Solutions

A forerunner in helping biopharma and medical device manufacturers leverage technology to produce life-changing and life-saving products and therapies.

Bill Burke’s goal is to enable the success of biotech, pharma, and medical device companies that create products and therapies to improve and save lives. Merit’s diverse team of technologists and manufacturing experts help biotech, pharma, and medical device companies perform digital strategies using the Merit for Life Science cloud application software and Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Azure cloud computing services as their digital business platform. As a result, Merit customers can optimize performance while producing life-changing and life-saving products, therapies, and patient and provider experiences. Merit Solutions is a Gold Certified Microsoft Partner.

Before launching Merit Solutions in 1999, Bill held various leadership roles in technology companies taking them from start-up to public capitalization. He has a passion for driving business success, building high-performance, diverse and inclusive teams, and developing leadership everywhere in an organization.

Bill received a BS in Finance from Illinois State University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.