Executive Profiles

Jill Ward

Senior Vice President and General Manager,
Accounting Professionals Division and
Intuit Health Group

As senior vice president and general manager of the Accounting Professionals Division and the Intuit Health Group, Jill Ward oversees two professional services businesses where Intuit serves professional clients who, in turn, provide critical services to their customers.

The Accounting Professionals Division is Intuit's largest professional services business, developing products and services that help accountants save time, increase their productivity and grow their practices. Ward's teams develop programs to help accountants recommend the right offerings to help their small business clients succeed.

Intuit Health is one of Intuit's fastest-growing business units. Ward is responsible for the company's initiatives to strengthen the relationship between physician practices and their patients by making communication and the ability to accomplish key tasks better, easier, and more efficient.

Ward joined Intuit in 2001 as the vice president and general manager of QuickBase and went on to lead the company's portfolio of industry-specific solutions, and its accountant-related programs and businesses.

Previously, Ward held senior positions at financial and business services companies, including Fidelity Investments, and Bain and Company. She holds a bachelor's degree from Wellesley College and a master's in business administration from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth. In 2008 and 2011, "Accounting Today" magazine named her as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in the accounting industry.