Gail Koziara Boudreaux (born 1960) is an American businesswoman and athlete. In college, she was a standout player for the Dartmouth Big Green Women's basketball team from 1978 through 1982. She later served as an executive for a number of companies such as Aetna, BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois (2002) and UnitedHealth Group (2008). In 2009 she was listed at #54 on the Forbes list of "The 100 Most Powerful Women".[3] From 2008 to 2014 she was on the Fortune list of powerful women, peaking at #25.[4] In Fall 2014, she stepped down from the CEO position of UnitedHealthcare (the largest business division of UHG), then forming her own healthcare consulting company GKB Global Health, LLC. In November 2017, she became CEO of Anthem Inc., now the second largest American company with a woman as CEO.
Anthem, Inc. is an American health insurance company founded in the 1940s, prior to 2014 known as WellPoint, Inc. It is the largest for-profit managed health care company in the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. It was formed when Anthem Insurance Company acquired WellPoint Health Networks, Inc., with the combined company adopting the name WellPoint, Inc.; trading on the NYSE for the combined company began under the WLP symbol on December 1, 2004. On December 3, 2014, WellPoint changed its corporate name to Anthem Inc., and its NYSE ticker changed from WLP to ANTM.[2][3]
