William Cork

A longtime senior executive, William Cork currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer of Fenwal Inc., a blood technology firm in Lake Zurich, Illinois. His company engages in support of cell therapies and transfusion medicine. In his leadership role, William Cork oversees numerous departments, including regulatory affairs, research and development, quality assurance, and scientific affairs.

Presently, William Cork's team works on products in a number of areas, including transfusion safety, whole blood collection, automated collection systems, and customer solutions and standard-setting service. Fenwal's transfusion safety products include a rapid diagnostic test that notices when platelets contain contamination from bacteria. The firm also offers leukoreduction filters that eliminate white blood cells from blood donations.

Throughout his career, Cork has invented many products. He led the development of the Amicus Platform, a device capable of blood and cellular product collection and therapies that is currently deployed globally. Before joining Nanosphere, Inc., in 2001, he served as a Vice President for Fenwal, where he focused on research and development. At Nanosphere, he lead the concept-to-product commercialization of the first automated nanotechnology-based diagnostic. He acted as Chief Technology Officer for eight years prior to returning to Fenwal. At Prism Technologies, Inc., he invented and patented an automated white blood cell separation technology and a data security technology.

William Cork offers extensive knowledge of transfusion medicine, advanced molecular science, and software development to the senior leadership of Fenwal. An inventor of more than 25 issued patents, with 55 patents pending, Cork is a true innovator across diverse disciplines of biomedical engineering. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers.

In preparation for entering the workforce, William Cork enrolled at Northwestern University. He studied electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, and computer science and earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. A specialized degree, the BSEE program at Northwestern requires complex studies in an elective technical field.

Outside of his professional endeavors, William Cork pursues a variety of hobbies that include photography and woodworking.