About
About Innovative Healthcare Solutions
Your Partner in Purifying, Sanitizing and Disinfecting
The Innovative Healthcare Solutions mission is to help schools and learning centers across the United States create better learning environments so that kids can thrive. Our commitment is to provide you with the highest quality products that are backed by science.
Our Team
Executive Team
Bill Williams
Founder
Bill Williams is the president of Innovative Healthcare Solutions located in Blue Ridge, GA. He graduated from The Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Management. Bill spent 35+ years in both sales and managerial roles with various companies including Hewlett-Packard and General Electric. His primary focus was medical capital equipment and in later years, software technology. Bill built many successful teams and enjoyed helping his customers embrace innovative technology.
Courtney Williams
President
Courtney Williams serves as the operations manager. She graduated from Queens University in Charlotte, NC with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She spent 10 years first, at the bedside in critical care and later in hospital administration. She then had the opportunity to stay home and raise their twin children. Courtney has spent the last 7 years teaching middle and high school science. Courtney has joined Bill fulltime and has had the opportunity to travel and meet many in the Head Start community. She is looking forward to being a support both to Bill and the community of Head Start.
Fletcher Williams
Business Development and Sales Manager
Fletcher Williams serves as Director of Implementation at IHS. He attended the University of South Alabama studying Emergency Medical Services. While a student he served as a university ambassador, as well as president and founder of his fraternity chapter. He worked as an EMT for LifeGuard Ambulance Service for a year before he began working at IHS. Fletcher has had the opportunity to travel across the country and work one-on-one with Head Start teams to train their staff and help implement our healthcare solutions. Fletcher can be onsite or virtual with your teams to train and answer all of your questions to best support your center’s operations.
Ryan Byrd Mayo
Director of Operations
Ryan Byrd is a graduate of the University of South Alabama where he obtained his BS in Management with a focus in Human Resources. He has also obtained his associates degree in Business Administration from Coastal Alabama Community College. He is from the small town of McIntosh Alabama where he was a student at his local Head Start program. He can confidently say that attending Head Start as a child gave him the skills and confidence to be where he is today! He currently lives in Mobile, Alabama and works as the operations manager for Innovative Healthcare Solutions, LLC located in Fairhope, AL.
Liv Williams
Director of Marketing
Liv Williams serves as the Marcom Manager for IHS. She graduated from The King’s College in New York City in 2021 with a B.A. in Media, Culture and the Arts and a double minor in Business Management and History. She began her journey with IHS during the summer of 2020 by helping create processes and paperwork. Now, she is excited to have transitioned into a full-time employee creating media content and coordinating all conference materials. It’s been an honor for her to be a part of such a wonderful team and to help people across the US learn more about health and safety.
Ian Simmons
President and CEO of Simmons & Sons Inc. Alpharetta Ga.
Ian’s story started on the island of Trinidad & Tobago where he had big dreams of owning his own business. After graduating from the University of the West Indies with a degree in Business, Ian headed to the United States to pursue his dream. He began his career as a delivery service manager at Expo Design center. This avenue piqued his interest in logistics and
lead him to subsequently launch Simmons & Sons Inc.
Simmons & Sons has operated in the southeast region for nearly two decades. S & S supplies transportation and logistical support to major retailers across the United States. Some of our relationships include Home Depot, Wayfair, IHS and Costco. We specialize in white glove delivery services which help to maintain long standing client relationships. In addition to these services Simmons & Sons consults with clients to solve logistics and transportation issues and implement new strategies that allow our client to get goods to customers faster.
Ashley Atwell
Shipping and Delivery Coordinator
Ashley Atwell graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from The University of South Alabama. She is from Houston County, Alabama but is currently living in Mobile, Alabama, serving as the Shipping and Delivery Coordinator for Innovative Healthcare Solutions, LLC.
Sales Representatives
Jim Axle
Vice President of Sales
Jim Axle is a Healthcare and Information Technology executive with more than 30 years of experience working with companies such as Hewlett-Packard’s MPG, Agilent Technologies, Philips Healthcare and startups such as Prism Alliance Group and Securlinx. This experience includes managerial sales and support of critical care devices, POC information systems, imaging systems, women’s healthcare, biometric IAM solutions and self-service (Kiosk) systems.
Jim brings his passion for customer service excellence to IHC Solutions. Finding new approaches to serve the people that serve the kids is his goal. His extensive healthcare background provides an ability to bring sanitizing and disinfecting best practices to the Head Start market. Jim is located in the Ann Arbor Michigan area.
Tyler Hess
Account Manager
Tyler Hess serves as the Florida Account Manager for IHS. He graduated from Auburn University in 2020 with a B.A. in Media Studies and a Minor in Marketing. After graduation, he traveled around the Southeast doing contract work and started a business in 2021. Tyler was brought on to help service our Florida customers in 2022 and we’re looking forward to his help providing health and safety products to the Sunshine State.
Lisa Moore
Area Vice President East Region
Lisa Moore is an acclaimed sales executive with over 30 years of experience, working primarily in the early learning market. Lisa has always had a passion for education as she graduated from Winston-Salem State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Education with licensure in Exceptional Children. She has lead sales teams in various markets to success, driven by an enhanced focus and prioritization of building and strengthening relationships. Lisa’s passion for people is what makes her work meaningful. Her goals align with her favorite poet:
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
– Dr. Maya Angelou
Michele Axle Richard
Account Manager
Michele Axle Richard represents Innovative Healthcare Solutions as an Account Representative for Region 5. She is a graduate of Clark Atlanta University and has over 25 years of customer service experience and over 17 years of training experience including performing presentations, facilitating training courses, as well as conducting one on one coaching sessions. Michele is passionate about the well-being of children, as she has three of her own. Her compassion and experience make her well equipped to support your center in any way she can.
Jeff Thompson
Account Manager
Jeff Thompson brings more than 20 years of classroom experience to his role consulting with Head Start Centers around health and safety. He taught in middle school classrooms in Southern California before moving into the nonprofit sector with Habitat for Humanity, leading training and development for volunteer programs across the United States. Driven by his belief that there’s always a solution, Jeff sees the best way to help kids learn is to help teachers – let the teachers teach and help them with every other expectation. Jeff works with the Head Start market in Region 7, bringing best practices in sanitizing and disinfecting to busy classrooms and buildings.
