Joseph Swedish

Board Member

Joseph R. Swedish is the former Chairman, President and CEO of Anthem, Inc, (currently Elevance Health) a Fortune 22 company and the nation’s leading health benefits provider. This became the foundation for Elevance Health today serving nearly 47.3 million members – or one in seven Americans – through its affiliated health plans, and over 117 million individuals across 33 states through its broad portfolio of health insurance and service subsidiaries.

He served as the Chairman, President and CEO from 2013 to 2018. Subsequently he served as a Strategic Advisor from 2018 to 2020. During his tenure Anthem’s membership grew by four million, or 11 percent, the average share price nearly quadrupled, and operating revenue increased 39 percent to over $89 billion. Core strategic imperatives included improving medical costs, working with physicians and health care organizations to improve quality and access, and improving the consumer experience.

As a business executive, conservationist, and philanthropist, Joe serves on the board of directors for CDW, Mesoblast - as Chairman, Centrexion Therapeutics, Accelus and Navitus Health Solutions. Most recently, he served on the board of directors for IBM, as chairman of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), and chairman of the Catholic Health Association. He currently serves as a board member for The Nature Conservancy (Colorado). He has also held board and advisory positions with American Hospital Association, Coventry Health Care, Inc., RehabCare Group, Inc., Cross Country, National Quality Forum, the National Center for Healthcare Leadership, and Loyola University Chicago. He is also a member and past chairman of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business Board of Visitors.

Prior to joining Anthem, Joe served as CEO for several major integrated health care delivery systems, including president and CEO of Trinity Health, an 18-state integrated health care delivery system. He also held CEO and senior leadership positions with the Hospital Corporation of America, Colorado’s Centura Health, and integrated health systems in Florida, Virginia, and the Carolinas.

In 2018, he continued to apply his expertise leveraging his extensive health care experience as co-founder of Concord Health Partners, a private equity firm investing in data analytics, provider enablement services and consumer engagement enterprises. He is now Partner Emeritus having recently departed active status.

More broadly, he has built a reputation as a trend-setter by leveraging value-creating assets through high-performing governance, creative strategies, consumer marketing, clinical innovations, and mergers/acquisitions – all efforts focused on organization renewal and growth.

For 12 years in a row, Modern Healthcare named him one of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare, ranking in the top 20 of the health sector’s most senior-level executives, high-level government administrators, elected officials, academics, and thought-leaders for five consecutive years.

He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and his master’s degree in health administration from Duke University