Bill McLaughlin

Snapshot

  • Title: CEO, Thrive (since Feb 3, 2025)
  • Replaced: Rob Stephenson (predecessor CEO under Court Square era 2021-2025)
  • Prior career: Not yet researched ^[ambiguous — fill on follow-up pass]

Public positioning

McLaughlin is the public-facing voice on Thrive’s AI strategy. Quoted publicly on Thrive’s “Crawl-Walk-Run-Pause” Managed AI Services adoption framework and the “eating our own dog food” thesis (agentic AI deployed internally in HR, finance, sales proposal generation, customer-service routing).