On Campus
Convocation features address by 1986 alumnus William W. Goetz
Muskingum University held its Convocation on August 26, featuring an address by 1986 alumnus William W. Goetz.
In his address, Mr. Goetz told the students, “My best advice to you is simply to show up. Show up for your classes, show up for events on campus and show up to support your friends. If you truly engage during your time here, you will benefit richly from it.”
William (Bill) Goetz is Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Sysco Corporation. A Fortune 500 company with annual sales of $44 billion, Sysco is the global leader in providing food products and foodservice equipment and supplies to restaurant, hospitality, educational, and healthcare facilities.
Mr. Goetz earned his Muskingum Bachelor of Arts degree in Business and Economics, with a minor in Speech. Immediately following his 1986 graduation, he began his career as a management trainee at Cintas Corporation, a Fortune 1000 company which provides corporate identity, uniform, safety, and first aid programs to the service and manufacturing industries.
He progressed through a series of roles with increasing responsibility at Cintas, becoming an officer of the company in 1997. In 2003, he joined ECOLAB Corporation – a water, hygiene, and energy technologies business service provider – to serve as Vice President-Corporate Marketing and Vice President-International Marketing. He returned to Cintas in 2006 as Vice President-Marketing and Merchandising and in 2008 was named President and Chief Operations Officer-Global Accounts and Strategic Markets. He helped lead Cintas to record annual sales of $4 billion before joining Sysco in 2012.
Mr. Goetz and his wife Joellen reside in Houston, Texas, and are the parents of Cooper, Emma, and James.
