Awards & Recognition
★TIME100 Health 2024 - Most influential people in health by TIME magazine
★Modern Healthcare's 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare (4 consecutive years, #2 in 2025, #10 in 2023)
★Business Roundtable Board Member
★World Economic Forum Governor and Steward
Notable Facts
→Chair and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, serving over 13.2 million members with $80+ billion in revenue
→25+ years at Kaiser Permanente, became CEO in December 2019 after Bernard Tyson's death
→Launched Risant Health in 2023 to expand value-based care model
→Started career as a nurse in emergency department at Crawford Long Hospital
→One of few cases where a Black male CEO succeeded another Black male CEO
→Board member of Business Roundtable and Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
→Past chair of California Hospital Association Board of Trustees
→Graduate of Oglethorpe University (1979) and Wichita State University