Board of Directors
Raquel C. Bono, M.D. was initially elected to the Board in September 2020. Dr. Bono is a Principal at RCB Consulting having held this position since October 2019, and serves as CEO and Chief of Surgical Innovation at Medical iSight, having held this position since 2023. Dr. Bono most recently served as Chief Health Officer at Viking Cruises from November 2020 until her retirement in December 2023. Prior to Viking Cruises, Dr. Bono, a board-certified trauma surgeon and retired Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy Medical Corps, served as the Chief Executive Officer and Director for the Defense Health Agency (DHA). In this capacity, Dr. Bono led a joint, integrated combat support agency that enables all branches of the U.S. military medical services to provide health care services to combatant commands in times of both peace and war. Dr. Bono integrated an unprecedented $50 billion worldwide health care enterprise for the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, composed of 50 hospitals and 300 clinics that provide care to 9.5 million military personnel, oversaw the Department of Defense deployment of the electronic health record, and facilitated the collaboration between the largest federated health systems of the Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). An American College of Surgeons (ACS) Fellow since 1991, Dr. Bono served on the ACS Board of Governors and the Governors Health Policy and Advocacy Workgroup. She has been honored with the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, three Defense Superior Service Medals, four Legion of Merit Medals, two Meritorious Service Medals, and two Navy and Marine Corps Commendation medals. The Board believes that Dr. Bono’s decorated military service and distinguished and successful career in trauma surgery and healthcare administration and fiscal management bring an important perspective to Humana’s Board and further contribute to its strategic composition. Dr. Bono’s extensive operational expertise in overseeing large-scale health systems and discipline in managing and advancing healthcare delivery systems and multi-billion dollar enterprises will be vital as the Company continues to evolve its clinical and care delivery strategies. |
Frank A. D'Amelio was initially elected to the Board in September 2003. Mr. D'Amelio was formerly Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer at Pfizer Inc. having held this position from January 2022 until May 2022. Mr. D’Amelio began his career at Pfizer in 2007 and since then has held various roles of increasing responsibility, including, SVP & Chief Financial Officer (September 2007-December 2010), Executive Vice President, Business Operations and Chief Financial Officer (January 2011-October 2018) and Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President, Global Supply (November 2018-December 2021). Prior to that, Mr. D’Amelio was Senior Executive Vice President of Integration and Chief Administrative Officer at Alcatel-Lucent from December 2006 to August 2007, and Chief Operating Officer of Lucent Technologies Inc. from February 2006 to November 2006. From May 2001 until January 2006, he was Executive Vice President, Administration and Chief Financial Officer of Lucent. Mr. D’Amelio also serves on the Board of Directors of Zoetis, Inc., Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Viatris Inc. The Board believes that Mr. D’Amelio’s skills, global experience and proven leadership in both financial and operational roles contribute greatly to the Board’s composition. Mr. D’Amelio has served as a senior executive at various global companies undergoing the kind of rapid and complex changes that the Company has undertaken in response to the rapidly changing markets and regulatory environment. His extensive knowledge of the capital markets, strategic investments and transactions and financial risk oversight experience, as well as broad experience working with the investment community, regulatory bodies and rating agencies provide unique and valuable perspective to the Board.
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David T. Feinberg, M.D. was initially elected to the Board in March 2022. Dr. Feinberg is Chairman of Oracle Health, where he is committed to making healthcare more accessible, affordable, and equitable. His work advances thought leadership and strategy related to unleashing the healing power of data through an open and connected healthcare ecosystem. Previously, Dr. Feinberg served as President and Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors of Cerner Corporation (Cerner), which is now Oracle Health. In that role Dr. Feinberg focused on delivering tools and technology to help caregivers optimize the health of their patients and communities. Dr. Feinberg joined Cerner from Google, where he held the position of Vice President of Google Health since 2019 and led Google’s worldwide health efforts, bringing together groups from across Google and Alphabet that used artificial intelligence, product expertise and hardware to tackle some of healthcare’s biggest challenges, and was responsible for organizing and innovating Google's various healthcare initiatives. Prior to Google, he served as President and CEO of Geisinger Health where he led an operational turnaround, and pushed the use of new platforms and tools, including an IT system called a Unified Data Architecture that allowed the company to integrate big data into existing data analytics and management systems. During his Geisinger tenure, Dr. Feinberg also introduced programs and services to put a greater focus on precision medicine and better patient care. Prior to Geisinger, Dr. Feinberg worked at UCLA for more than 20 years and served in a number of leadership roles, including President, CEO and Associate Vice Chancellor of UCLA Health Sciences, Vice Chancellor and CEO for the UCLA Hospital System, and CEO of UCLA’s Ronald Reagan Medical Center. Dr. Feinberg earned his undergraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley. He graduated with distinction from the University of Health Sciences/Chicago Medical School. He completed an internship in pediatrics at Loyola University Medical Center, and residency and fellowship training in psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. He earned a Master of Business Administration from Pepperdine University. Dr. Feinberg is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, a Distinguished Fellow of American Psychiatric Association and received the Cancro Academic Leadership Award from the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Feinberg also serves on the Board of Directors of Edwards Lifesciences Corporation. The Board believes that Dr. Feinberg’s experience leading large-scale healthcare organizations focused on leveraging technology and digital innovation to improve clinical care, including public and private companies, brings valuable insights to the Board and further contribute to its strategic composition. His experience leading major corporate transactions as a public company CEO, most notably overseeing the acquisition of Cerner by Oracle, provide the Board with significant transactional and capital allocation expertise. Dr. Feinberg’s clinical background, patient-centric mindset, operating experience, and expertise in guiding systems transformations qualify him to offer key perspectives as the Company continues to advance the integration of its clinical systems and care models to improve the customer experience and reduce costs.
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Robert S. Field was initially elected to the Board in April 2026. Since 2014, Mr. Field has held the position of Principal and Managing Member of nMed Capital Management LLC, an investment firm focused on U.S. healthcare services companies, primarily in the managed care industry. He previously served as a senior analyst at Luxor Capital, a multi-strategy investment fund, where he led healthcare services investments. Earlier in his career, Mr. Field worked as an associate at McKinsey & Company, focused on corporate and business strategy and previously practiced antitrust law at Vinson & Elkins LLP.
Mr. Field earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of Texas at Austin, a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Texas School of Law, and a Master of Arts degree in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University.
The Board believes that Mr. Field, having more than two decades as a healthcare investor, will bring meaningful insights to the Board. Mr. Field’s deep expertise across investment evaluation, risk oversight, and capital allocation, along with his strong understanding of legal and regulatory dynamics in the healthcare sector, will be valuable as the Company executes its strategy to drive profitable, sustainable growth and long-term shareholder value.
Wayne A. I. Frederick, M.D., was initially elected to the Board in February 2020. He is the Interim President of Howard University, having been appointed to serve since September 1, 2025, and President Emeritus having previously served as the 17th President from July 2014 - September 2023, and is the distinguished Charles R. Drew Professor of Surgery at the Howard University College of Medicine. He is also a practicing cancer surgeon at Howard University Hospital. Prior to that Dr. Frederick served as Howard University’s Interim President (elected October 2013) after serving as Provost and Chief Academic Officer for more than a year. Following his post-doctoral research and surgical oncology fellowships at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Dr. Frederick began his academic career as Associate Director of the Cancer Center at the University of Connecticut. Upon his return to Howard University, his academic positions included Associate Dean in the College of Medicine, Division Chief in the Department of Surgery, Director of the Cancer Center and Deputy Provost for Health Sciences. He also earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Howard University’s School of Business in 2011. Dr. Frederick is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and belongs to numerous surgical and medical organizations, including, the ACS’ Academy of Master Surgeon Educators, the American Surgical Association and the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Frederick also serves on the Board of Directors of Insulet Corporation, Tempus AI, Inc., Workday, Inc., and Mutual of America Life Insurance Co.
The Board believes that Dr. Frederick’s exemplary career as a leader in medical research, healthcare academics and business administration brings valuable insights to the Board to assist in the advancement of its strategic healthcare goals. Dr. Frederick’s extensive healthcare and disease management background will be instrumental to our company’s relationships with our members and our physician partners, as Humana continues to innovate in the area of health data analytics.
Kurt J. Hilzinger was initially elected to the Board in July 2003, and was elected as Chairman of the Board effective January 1, 2014. Mr. Hilzinger served as Lead Director on Humana’s Board of Directors from August 2010 until his appointment as Chairman. Mr. Hilzinger is an Executive Advisor, and former Partner, at Court Square Capital Partners, LP, an independent private equity firm, having been with the firm since November 2007. At Court Square Capital Partners, Mr. Hilzinger focuses principally on investments in the healthcare industry. Prior to Court Square Capital Partners, Mr. Hilzinger was a Director of AmerisourceBergen Corporation from March 2004 to November 2007; having previously served as President and Chief Operating Officer of AmerisourceBergen Corporation from October 2002 to November 2007, and as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer from August 2001 to October 2002. As a distinguished financial executive and operator, Mr. Hilzinger led the recapitalization and initial public offering or Amerisource Health Corp. and the successful integration or Amerisource Health Corp. and Bergen Brunswig Corp. in the creation of AmerisourceBergen Corp. (now Cencora Corp.). In addition to his integration responsibilities, Mr. Hilzinger held enterprise-wide P&L responsibility while overseeing the integration of 30+ acquisitions and the transformation of the business model to fee or services. Mr. Hilzinger has significant government affairs experience interacting with the FTC, the FDA, and the DEA, and while serving as Chairman of the Healthcare Distribution Alliance (HDA). Mr. Hilzinger is a thought leader in the healthcare sector, with a successful career track record of investments in pharmaceutical services and commercialization. Mr. Hilzinger also serves on the Board of Directors of Outlook Therapeutics, Inc. The Board believes that Mr. Hilzinger’s distinguished experience as a financial executive, professional healthcare investor, and operating executive contributes significantly to the Board’s composition. His extensive tenure as a Partner at a leading private equity firm provides a sophisticated, shareholder-aligned perspective on capital allocation, risk oversight and disciplined investment evaluation. Mr. Hilzinger’s deep financial expertise in the healthcare sector includes a track record of overseeing and leading M&A/transaction integrations, recapitalizations, and initial public offerings and provides the Board with invaluable strategic insight. |
Karen W. Katz, M.B.A. was initially elected to the Board in September 2019. She was most recently interim CEO of Intermix, LLC from June 2022 to December 2022. Prior to Intermix, Ms. Katz served as the President and CEO of Neiman Marcus Group LTD LLC from 2010 to February 2018. Under Ms. Katz's leadership, the company executed strategies focused on prioritizing the customer experience and technology integration. Neiman Marcus Group is an international multibrand omni-channel retailer whose portfolio of brands includes Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman and MyTheresa. Having joined Neiman Marcus in 1985, Ms. Katz served in key executive and leadership roles in the company’s merchant, stores and eCommerce organizations as Executive Vice President—Stores, a member of the Office of the Chairman of Neiman Marcus Group, and President, Neiman Marcus Online, and President and CEO, Neiman Marcus Stores. Ms. Katz currently serves on the Board of Directors of The RealReal, Inc.
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Marcy S. Klevorn was initially elected to the Board in February 2021. Ms. Klevorn was formerly the Chief Transformation Officer of Ford Motor Company from May 2019 until her retirement in October 2019. In this role, she accelerated the company’s transformation by helping to refine its corporate governance systems, facilitate faster adoption of agile teams across the business and ensure process improvements across the enterprise. She also facilitated strategic partnerships with key technology partners and supported the company’s diversity efforts. Having joined Ford Motor Company in 1983, Ms. Klevorn served in key executive and leadership roles within the company’s information technology organization including Director of the Office of the Chief Information Officer and Group Vice President of Information Technology. Ms. Klevorn also served as Executive Vice President and President of Ford Smart Mobility LLC, a division of Ford Motor Company, where she oversaw certain acquisitions and other investments and helped to accelerate the company’s plans to design, build, grow and invest in emerging mobility services and global data insight and analytics. Ms. Klevorn currently serves on the Board of Directors of Northern Trust Corporation and Cerence Inc. in addition to a few privately held companies.
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| Jorge S. Mesquita was initially elected to the Board in February 2021. Mr. Mesquita was formerly Chief Executive Officer of BlueTriton Brands, from July 2021 until March 2022. In this role Mr. Mesquita led the company’s initiatives to expand market leadership, advance commitment to sustainability and environmental stewardship and to realize the potential of the company’s portfolio of water brands. Prior to joining BlueTriton Brands, Mr. Mesquita was formerly the Executive Vice President, Worldwide Chairman, Consumer of Johnson & Johnson (J&J), from December 2014 until February 2019, where he was responsible for increasing competition within J&J’s consumer business through a comprehensive transformational strategy. In this role, Mr. Mesquita served on J&J’s Executive Committee and led the Consumer Group Operating Committee. Prior to that, Mr. Mesquita was employed by The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G), where he held various marketing and leadership positions for 29 years from 1984 to 2013. During his tenure at P&G, Mr. Mesquita served as Group President – New Business Creation and Innovation from March 2012 until June 2013, Group President – Special Assignment from January 2012 until March 2012, Group President, Global Fabric Care from 2007 to 2011 and President, Global Home Care from 2001 to 2007, also serving as President of Commercial Products and President of P&G Professional from 2006 to 2007. Mr. Mesquita currently serves on the Board of Directors of Mondelez International, Inc. The Board believes that Mr. Mesquita’s proven experience in leading business units for significant global, consumer-oriented companies provides a valuable perspective to Humana’s Board and further contribute to its strategic composition. Mr. Mesquita’s forward-thinking, transformational mindset and strong track record of building and marketing global brands, developing consumer insight-driven innovation capabilities, and driving strong, profitable growth will be essential as the Company continues to create seamless consumer experiences and help its members achieve their best health. |
James (Jim) Rechtin, President and Chief Executive Officer, joined Humana in January 2024, having served as President and Chief Operating Officer until July 2024. Under his leadership, Humana operates as a leading integrated care delivery model centered on improving health outcomes, driving lower costs, enhancing quality, and providing a simple and personalized member and patient experience.
Jim brings to Humana a strong combination of operational, industry, M&A and CEO expertise. His first-hand experience leading through the challenges and opportunities of a changing health care services continuum will help accelerate our integrated care strategy at pace.
Prior to joining Humana, Jim served as President and CEO at Envision Healthcare. He has more than 22 years of health care experience with a focus on the delivery of value-based care in various medical group settings, including a deep understanding of Medicare Advantage. Prior to joining Envision, Jim served as President of OptumCare, part of UnitedHealth Group. Before that, Jim was with DaVita Medical Group, which he joined in 2014 and played the dual roles of Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and President of DaVita Medical Group’s California market. Further, he is a 14-year veteran of Bain & Company, highlighting his depth of experience in health care mergers and the overall health care sector.
Early in his career, Jim ran operations for a nonprofit health and human services clinic in Indianapolis, Indiana, and served in the United States Peace Corps in the Republic of Congo. He received a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts from DePauw University.
Gordon Smith was initially elected to the Board in October 2024. Mr. Smith serves as an Operating Advisor of CD&R (Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, LLC) Funds, a leading private investment firm. He was formerly the Co-President and Co-Chief Operating Officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPMorgan), having held these positions from 2018 until retiring in January of 2022. In this role, Mr. Smith served as a member of the firm’s Operating Committee and helped oversee all aspects of the company’s business and operations. Mr. Smith’s career at JPMorgan began in 2007 and spanned 15 years, during which he also served as Chief Executive Officer of Consumer & Community Banking (2012-2021), and prior to that held various roles of increasing responsibility, including as CEO of Chase Card Services, Auto Finance and Student Lending (2011-2012), and CEO of Chase Card Services (2007-2011). Prior to his time at JPMorgan, Mr. Smith spent more than 25 years at American Express, where he led and managed several businesses, including the Global Commercial Card Business. Mr. Smith currently serves on the Board of Directors of Choice Hotels International and Comcast Corporation. The Board believes that Mr. Smith is an extremely accomplished executive with deep experience leading complex, highly regulated financial organizations in driving better, faster and more efficient consumer businesses. This significant operational, financial and transactional expertise provides the Board with valuable insights into the customer journey across complementary businesses, brand management, and accelerating the digital transformation of legacy enterprises, further enhancing the Board’s strategic oversight as the Company continues to grow its Medicare Advantage and CenterWell health care services businesses, drive operational efficiencies, and create seamless, personalized consumer experiences. |