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Gail Koziara Boudreaux

Gail Koziara Boudreaux (nee Koziara, born 1960) is an American businesswoman. She is the president and CEO of Elevance Health since 2017, and has been an executive for other health insurance companies including Aetna, BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois (2002), and UnitedHealth Group (2008).

Gail Boudreaux
Born
Gail Koziara

1960 (age 63–64)
Chicopee, Massachusetts, U.S.
EducationDartmouth College (BA)
Columbia University (MBA)
OccupationBusinesswoman
TitlePresident and CEO, Elevance Health
Term2017-
SpouseTerry Boudreaux[1]
Children2 sons[2]

In 2015, Boudreaux formed her own healthcare consulting company, GKB Global Health, LLC. In 2017, she became CEO of Elevance Health. In 2020, Boudreaux was ranked 10th on the Forbes list of "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women" and ranked 14th in 2023.[3][4] She was ranked 10th on Fortune's list of Most Powerful Women in 2023.[5] In 2023, she made 21.9. million. [6]

High school

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Boudreaux attended Chicopee Comprehensive High School in Chicopee, Massachusetts. Her team twice won the state championship. At 17, she averaged 23.4 points and 20 rebounds a game for the Chicopee Comprehensive girls' basketball team. She ultimately scored a school-record 1,719 career points and was named a Parade All American her senior year. The 6'2" senior center also held the Massachusetts girls' state shot-put record with a throw of 44 feet, six inches.[7]

College

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Koziara led the Big Green women's basketball in scoring for three consecutive years, and still holds a substantial number of school records. She became Dartmouth's all-time leading scorer and rebounder, with 1,933 points and 1,635 rebounds in 89 games.[8] She also was named Ivy League Player of the Year three straight seasons, and became a two-time Academic All-American and third team All-American as well. Koziara was honored by the NCAA as a Silver Anniversary Award winner and inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame and Dartmouth's Wearers of the Green Hall of Fame. She led the Big Green to the first of their many Ivy League championships.[8] She also won four straight Ivy League women's shot put titles, with a throw of 46 feet, four inches her senior year. That same year she earned All American recognition in the shot put.[9]

She graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1982.[10][11] She attended business school at Columbia University and graduated with high honors in 1989.[8][10]

Professional career

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She spent twenty years at Aetna, then in 2002 was named president of Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois. She became the executive vice president for external operations at Health Care Service Corporation, which encompasses Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois.

In May 2008 she became executive vice president of UnitedHealthcare at UnitedHealth Group. From January 2011 to November 2014, she was the chief executive officer of UnitedHealthcare,[12] the biggest US insurer, with 45 million customers and revenue of $120 billion.[13]

In 2015, months after stepping down from her post of CEO for UnitedHealthcare, Gail founded and became CEO of GKB Global Health, LLC, a healthcare strategy and business advisory firm.[14]

In November 2017, Boudreaux was named CEO of Anthem, Inc.[15] which has since re-branded to Elevance Health, Inc.[16]

Awards and recognition

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Boudreaux was honored from 2008 to 2021 as one of Fortune's 50 Most Powerful Women in American Business and as one of the Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women in The World.

  • In 2020 she was #10 on the Forbes list of The 100 Most Powerful Women.[3]
  • In 2021 she was #16 on the Forbes list of The 100 Most Powerful Women.[17]
  • In 2023 she was #14 on the Forbes list of The 100 Most Powerful Women.[3]

As recently as 2021, Boudreaux was also named by Modern Healthcare as one of the Most Powerful People in Healthcare.[18] She was recognized by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal as one of the top 25 industry leaders, and included on Today's Chicago Woman list of 100 Women of Influence.

In 2018, Boudreaux was awarded the Billie Jean King Contribution Award.[19] In 2022, she was awarded the Theodore Roosevelt Award,[20] as well as being inducted into the CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame Class of 2022.[21]

In 2023, Boudreaux became the first female elected chair of The Business Council, an association of top CEOs.[22]

She was ranked 10th on Fortune's list of Most Powerful Women in 2023.[5]

Personal life

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She is married to Terry Boudreaux, they have two sons, and live in Indianapolis.[23]

See also

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Further reading

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References

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  1. ^ "Gail Koziara Boudreaux '82". Trustees of Dartmouth College. Retrieved May 30, 2017.
  2. ^ "Gail Koziara Boudreaux '82". Dartmouth College. December 10, 2015. Retrieved May 30, 2017.
  3. ^ a b c "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women". Forbes. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
  4. ^ "The World's Most Powerful Women 2023". Forbes.
  5. ^ a b "Most Powerful Women". Fortune.
  6. ^ Salary.com, Site built by. "President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Gail K. Boudreaux salary at ELEVANCE HEALTH INC". Salary.com. Retrieved 2024-09-14.
  7. ^ Sports Illustrated: Faces In the Crowd 1978
  8. ^ a b c Peters, Joey (24 May 2009). "Industry leader: Gail Boudreaux". Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.
  9. ^ Sports Illustrated: Faces In the Crowd 1982
  10. ^ a b Parker, Garrett (2018-07-12). "10 Things You Didn't Know About Anthem CEO Gail Boudreaux". Money Inc. Retrieved 2020-05-05.
  11. ^ "$2 Million Gift Endows Women's Basketball Head Coach Position | Dartmouth News". news.dartmouth.edu. 29 September 2015. Retrieved 2020-05-05.
  12. ^ "Board of Trustees". Trustees of Dartmouth College. Retrieved May 17, 2017.
  13. ^ "Gail Koziara Boudreaux, Dartmouth". THE IVY LEAGUE. March 6, 2017. Retrieved May 17, 2017.[permanent dead link‍]
  14. ^ Eichelberger, Curtis. "Gail Koziara Boudreaux: From the basketball court to the boardroom". ncaa.org. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  15. ^ "Anthem names industry veteran Gail Boudreaux as new CEO". CNBC. November 6, 2017.
  16. ^ "Form 8-K for Anthem Inc filed 05/18/2022". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. 18 May 2022. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  17. ^ "Forbes Powerful Women 2021". Forbes. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
  18. ^ "The 100 most influential people in health care, according to Modern Healthcare". Advisory.com. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  19. ^ "2018 Billie Jean King Leadership Award: Gail K. Boudreaux". Women's Sports Foundation. Archived from the original on 2019-05-08. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
  20. ^ McGuire, Corbin (13 January 2022). "2022 Theodore Roosevelt Award: Gail Koziara Boudreaux". NCAA. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  21. ^ Bollig, Laurie. "CoSIDA Academic All-America® Hall of Fame Class of 2022 Announced". College Sports Information Directors of America Academic All-America Program. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  22. ^ Wilson, Rylee (2023-02-08). "Elevance Health CEO 1st woman elected chair of the Business Council". www.beckerspayer.com. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
  23. ^ April 2024, Lisa Furlong | March-. "Gail Koziara Boudreaux '82". Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 March 2024. Retrieved 2024-12-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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