Joseph Swedish - International Business Independent Director

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Director

Mr. Joseph R. Swedish is Independent Director of the company. Mr. Swedish joined Anthem in 2013 as chief executive officer and was named chairman of Anthems board in 2015. He was the chairman, chief executive officer and president until late 2017 when he retired and became the executive chairman, a position he held until his retirement in May 2018. Prior to joining Anthem, he was the division president of Hospital Corporation of America from 1993 to 1998, president and chief executive officer of Centura Health from 1999 to 2004 and then served as president and chief executive officer of Trinity Health Corporation from 2004 to 2013. Mr. Swedish is a director of Centrexion Therapeutics and Mesoblast Limited. He also served as a director of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, the National Institute for Health Care Management, the Central Indiana Corporationrationrate Partnership, Inc. and as a member of the Business Roundtable. Mr. Swedish currently serves as chairman of the Board of Visitors of Duke Universitys Fuqua School of Business and was the past chairman of Americas Health Insurance Plans. He is a graduate member of The Business Council and a member of the Duke Margolis External Advisory Board. He is also a director of CDW Corporation and Proteus Digital Health, Inc. Mr. Swedish also serves as CoFounder Partner at Concord Health Partners, a private equity firm focused on strategic investing in healthcare portfolio companies. since 2017.
Age 67
Tenure 7 years
Swedish holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a master’s degree in health administration from Duke University.
International Business Machines (IBM) is traded on Berlin Exchange in Germany and employs 45 people.

International Business Leadership Team

Elected by the shareholders, the International Business' board of directors comprises two types of representatives: International Business inside directors who are chosen from within the company, and outside directors, selected externally and held independent of International. The board's role is to monitor International Business' management team and ensure that shareholders' interests are well served. International Business' inside directors are responsible for reviewing and approving budgets prepared by upper management to implement core corporate initiatives and projects. On the other hand, International Business' outside directors are responsible for providing unbiased perspectives on the board's policies.
Andrew Liveris, Independent Director
Kenneth Keverian, Senior Vice President - Corporate Strategy
Gary Cohn, Vice Chairman
Alex Gorsky, Independent Director
Frederick Waddell, Independent Director
Arvind Krishna, Senior Vice President - Cloud and Cognitive Software
Robert Bene, Vice President Controller
James Kavanaugh, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Finance and operation
Diane Gherson, Chief Human Resource Officer, Senior Vice President
Sidney Taurel, Independent Director
Virginia Rometty, Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer
Peter Voser, Independent Director
John Kelly, Senior Vice President Director - Research
Michelle Howard, Independent Director
James Whitehurst, President
David Farr, Independent Director
Joseph Swedish, Independent Director
Michelle Browdy, Senior Vice President - Legal and Regulatory Affairs and General Counsel
Michael Eskew, Lead Independent Director
Martin Schroeter, CFO, Senior Vice President - Finance and Enterprise Transformation
Martha Pollack, Independent Director
Frederick McNabb, Independent Director
Thomas Buberl, Director

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