Ari Bousbib

Ari Bousbib is chairman and chief executive officer of IQVIA. Formed through the merger of IMS Health and Quintiles, IQVIA offers a broad range of solutions that harness advances in healthcare information, technology, analytics and human ingenuity to drive healthcare forward. IQVIA’s approximately 55,000 employees conduct operations in more than 100 countries. Ari assumed this position in October 2016 following the merger of Quintiles and IMS Health. From 2010 until the merger, he served as chairman and CEO of IMS Health, leading the company’s IPO in 2014.

Prior to Ari’s appointment at IMS Health, he spent 14 years at United Technologies Corporation (UTC), where he held several senior leadership positions. He joined UTC in 1997 as chief strategy and development officer, became chief operating officer of Otis Elevator Company in 2000, and president and chief executive of Otis in 2002. In 2008, Ari was appointed president of UTC Commercial Companies with executive leadership responsibility for the worldwide operations of Otis, Carrier, UTC Fire and Security and UTC Power, generating $36 billion in annual revenues and leading a team of 150,000 employees around the world.

Ari is a former partner at global management and technology consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. He joined the firm in 1987 as an associate and was elected to its partnership in 1992.

Ari has been serving on the board of directors of The Home Depot since 2007, and is a member of the Harvard Medical School Health Care Policy Advisory Council.