Joseph R. Swedish
Former Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Anthem, Inc.
Joseph R. Swedish is the former Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Anthem, Inc., a health benefits provider now known as Elevance Health, Inc. Swedish served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Anthem from 2013 to 2017, became Chairman in 2015, and became Executive Chairman in 2017. From his retirement in 2018 to 2020, Swedish served as a Senior Advisor to Anthem.
Prior to joining Anthem, Swedish was President and Chief Executive Officer of Trinity Health, an eighteen-state integrated health care delivery system, from 2004 to 2013. Swedish also has held CEO and senior leadership positions with Centura Health, Hospital Corporation of America and other healthcare enterprises. Swedish also is the co-founder and Partner Emeritus of Concord Health Partners, LLC, a private equity firm focused on strategic investing in healthcare portfolio companies.
Swedish also serves on the boards of directors of Centrexion Therapeutics Corporation, Integrity Implants, Inc. dba Accelus, and Navitus Health Solutions. He is on the Board of Visitors for Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and a member of the Board of Trustees for the Nature Conservancy in Colorado. Previously, Swedish served on the board of directors for IBM Corporation, Mesoblast Limited, and CHP Merger Corp. Swedish received his bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and his master’s degree in health administration from Duke University.