William E. Hay

September 21, 1943-July 15, 2018 Bill founded his consulting and executive search firm, Hay & Company, in 1982 as consultants in organization design, strategy, structure and senior executive selection to the manufacturing, service and nonprofit sectors on a national basis. Immediately prior to forming the firm, Mr. Hay spent 12 years with Ernst & Young as Midwest Regional Head of Executive Search Consulting. A native Chicagoan, Bill attended the University of Illinois in Urbana for an undergraduate degree in management and then DePaul University for his MBA. He joined the full-time DePaul faculty within the Management Department and served as adjunct faculty in the Graduate School of Business, the School of Public Service and the School for New Learning as a professional advisor. His professional and academic interests included organizational design, planning, corporate strategy and top management assessment and selection. His generosity funded Vincent on Leadership: The Hay Project at DePaul. In 2006, DePaul University awarded him an honorary doctorate from the University's College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. Bill served as a member of the DePaul University Board of Trustees with distinction, as a Member of the Corporation, and later as a Life Trustee. He had chaired the Philanthropy Committee, Trusteeship Committee, and the Board Effectiveness Task Force. He also served on the boards of The Career Transitions Center, The Union League Club of Chicago and The Hope Institute for Children and Families. He volunteered as a business consultant to the Arts and Business Council of Chicago, providing pro-bono counsel to a wide spectrum of nonprofit groups on organizational issues and board development. Mr. Hay passed away on Sunday, July 15, after a short illness. Friends and colleagues remember Bill as a trusted advisor, an aficionado of organization design, an incredible communicator, a frustrated golfer, a man of detail, having an infectious laugh and for his great insight and generosity with board work and charitable endeavors. Bill was a gentleman. He always had time for a cup of coffee. A Mass of the Resurrection for Mr. Hay will take place on Saturday July 21st at the Cortelyou Commons, 2324 N. Freemont Avenue on the Lincoln Park Campus of DePaul University. Visitation will be from 9:00 to 10:00 AM followed by the mass. Parking at Sheffield garage, 2331 N. Sheffield (approach from Fullerton Avenue). In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Bethesda Rehabilitation & Senior Care (www.bethesdaseniorcare.org) or to The Career Transitions Center (www.ctcchicago.org). Arrangements entrusted to the Original Lamb Family Funeral & Cremation Service, 708-710-9549. For additional information see www.wmhay.com.