Employment History:
Principal, Senior Vice President, Johnson & Higgins

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Why He is an Expert:
The reputation and quality of the programming at The Watson Institute, which Mr. White is directly involved in. In January of 2000, he became the CEO of The Watson Institute.

Best Advice:
"Stay focused. You can’t be everything to everybody. We’ve had a lot of people ask us if we’d consider adults, and we say, 'No.' Once you go down that slippery slope, you’ve got to choose. I can’t do cradle to grave."

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Biography Excerpt:
Raymond White, CEO of the Watson Institute, is a leading programs administrator serving children and youth with special needs. He has been with the company since 1994, the year he became a D.T. Watson Rehabilitation Hospital board member. When the business sold the hospital in 1999, Mr. White was instrumental in transitioning the organization, expanding the special education program, adding diagnostic capabilities and broadening the age range of those served.

     

Cambridge Who's Who: What would you like to promote most about yourself or your business?  
RAYMOND B WHITE :  Our expertise with the populations that we serve, which includes neurologically-impaired youngsters aged 3 to 21 as well as children and youth with autism spectrum disorders – that’s about half the kids we serve in our education centers. We also do contract work with public school districts, which mostly deals with autism.

What are your short-term and long-term career goals? And what specific steps have you taken toward achieving these goals?
Short-term, we’re building a new school in the city of Pittsburgh, which is replacing an old one there to serve kids with serious emotional disorders and mental health issues. Right now we have an architect, we have a contractor picked and we’re starting a capital campaign.

How do you remain current in your industry?
I read a lot, first and foremost. I’m on the advisory board of the West Virginia University’s College of Business and Economics, which is a forum for staying current on a lot of business things. I’m an adjunct faculty member there, so I teach a class there every other semester on risk management. I happen to be an undergraduate at WVU. We want to have the most professional people we can have. I tend to send people to conferences, but I seldom go myself. We allow employees up to $4,000 per year for professional training in the expansion of their capabilities.