Westminster College Talking Innovation with Bill

In this discussion, Bill Roedy and other members of the Westminster community discuss innovation: what does it mean, where does it start, and how to make ideas a reality. Dr. Selcen Phelps, PhD, MBA Associate Professor of Management and MIS at Westminster College moderates. Other members of the panel include Andrew R McHugh '13, Cofounder and Chief Curiosity Curator of The What If...? LLC, and Harmony Nelson '15, Westminster student and International Business major.

Former Chairman and Chief Executive, MTV Networks International Bill Roedy graduated from West Point and earned a Bronze Star and other medals in the Airborne Rangers of the United States Army in Vietnam. His career has taken him from the military to a vice presidency at HBO in 1979. After leaving HBO in 1989, he helped MTV expand its operations in numerous global markets and rose to the position of chairman and chief executive of MTV Networks International prior to retirement in 2011. He helped MTV grow and operate 400 digital brands including VH1, Comedy Central, and Nickelodeon. Mr. Roedy holds a MBA from Harvard and he helped lead MTV and affiliated brands into 162 countries with broadcasts in over 33 languages. While working in the media and entertainment business, he helped drive social responsibility in the area of global health serving as Ambassador for UNAIDS. He is the author of What Makes Business Rock: Building the World's Largest Global Networks (2011).

With campuses in Fulton, Missouri and Mesa, Arizona, Westminster College is ranked one of the top liberal arts colleges in the country by Forbes, U.S. News & World Report, The Princeton Review and more.