HCA HEALTHCARE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Audit Committee
- Audit Committee
- Management Director / Committee Chair / Committee Member
Andrea B. Smith retired from Bank of America in December 2021 after nearly 34 years with the company. Most recently, she served as chief administrative officer (CAO) from August 2015 through December 2021. Previously, she led Global Human Resources from January 2010 to August 2015. Ms. Smith graduated from Southern Methodist University with a degree in economics. She also serves on the boards of several nonprofit organizations, including the PGA of America and the Charlotte Sports Foundation.
Job Titles:
- Controller
- Senior Vice President
- Senior Vice President and Controller for Nashville
Chris Wyatt is senior vice president and controller for Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare, one of the nation's leading providers of healthcare services. His responsibilities include Financial Reporting, Corporate Accounting, Reimbursement, Tax, Construction & Equipment, Capital Asset Management and HCA Healthcare's Insurance subsidiary, HCI.
Previously, Wyatt served as the chief financial officer for HCA Healthcare Information Technology and Services where he provided financial, contractual and portfolio leadership. Prior to that role, Wyatt served as CFO for HCA Healthcare's Clinical Services Group. As the CSG CFO, he provided financial leadership for the company's meaningful use and electronic health record initiatives.
Before joining HCA Healthcare, Wyatt was with Ernst & Young for ten years. During that time, he worked with clients in the healthcare industry, including HCA Healthcare.
Wyatt currently serves on the board of Monroe Harding, a non-profit supporting foster care youth and other vulnerable young people. He also serves on the Tennessee State University Accounting Advisory Board.
Wyatt holds Bachelor's Degrees in Accounting and Finance from the University of Tennessee and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications
Deborah M. Reiner is senior vice president, marketing and communications for HCA Healthcare, one of the nation's leading providers of healthcare services. She is responsible for the company's marketing and communications strategy and related operations, as well as overseeing HCA Healthcare's community relations efforts, and engaging key audiences to support HCA Healthcare's strategic agenda and patients-first culture.
A 22-year veteran of HCA Healthcare, Reiner spent her first 12 years in the company's Mountain Division in various roles around marketing, planning, and service line growth. Since transitioning to HCA Healthcare's corporate office, she has led the activity to launch MyHealthOne patient portal, established an enterprise platform for websites and digital modules, and merged five separate patient-facing call centers into a shared service model dedicated to enhancing growth, retention, and patient engagement. The HCA Healthcare rebrand was also launched under Reiner's leadership.
Over the years, Reiner has supported a variety of community organizations, including committee work for United Way and Catholic Health Charities. She currently serves on the boards of the HCA Healthcare Foundation, the HCA Healthcare Hope Fund, United Way of Greater Nashville and St. Luke's Community House. She was also a founding member of "Life After Breast Cancer" - an annual celebration of life for breast cancer patients, survivors and their families in Utah that was started when survivorship of breast cancer was less advanced than it is today.
Reiner has a dual degree in journalism and business management from the University of Wyoming and a master's in organizational management from the University of Phoenix.
Job Titles:
- Chief Clinical Officer
- Executive Vice President
- Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer for Nashville
- President and CEO of Physician Services
Dr. Michael Cuffe is executive vice president and chief clinical officer for Nashville, Tennessee-based, HCA Healthcare, one of the nation's leading providers of healthcare services. In his role, Dr. Cuffe is broadly responsible for the company's clinical and physician agenda including clinical quality, nursing, clinical informatics, care transformation, urgent care operations, graduate medical education, laboratory services, and more than 13,000 employed and managed physicians.
Dr. Cuffe joined HCA Healthcare in October 2011 as president and CEO of Physician Services. Prior to this position, he served as vice president for Ambulatory Services and chief medical officer for Duke University Health System. He previously served as vice president of Medical Affairs for Duke University Health System, vice dean for the Duke University School of Medicine, as well as in various leadership roles in the Duke Clinical Research Institute.
Dr. Cuffe is a graduate of MIT, and received his MD and MBA degree from Duke University. He also completed his residency in internal medicine and fellowship in cardiology at Duke.
Job Titles:
- President - American Group
- President of the American Group of Nashville
Erol R. Akdamar is president of the American Group of Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare, one of the nation's leading providers of healthcare services. He is responsible for 60 of HCA Healthcare's hospital operations with 75,000 colleagues in Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana and Texas.
Prior to his current role, Akdamar served as president for Medical City Healthcare, HCA Healthcare's North Texas Division, from 2013 to 2022. Akdamar began his career with HCA Healthcare as an administrative resident in 1993, holding progressive leadership roles in Louisiana, Georgia and Texas facilities, earning a reputation for strong leadership and growth initiatives. His mantra of "excellence always" has resulted in exceptional employee engagement, outstanding quality and earnings performance.
Akdamar is a graduate of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and he earned a Master of Health Administration from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans. Akdamar is a fellow with the American College of Healthcare Executives and has served on a number of national and state-level governing boards, including chair of the board of trustees for the Texas Hospital Association. Because of his courageous leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic, Akdamar was honored by the Dallas Business Journal as one of DFW's Most Inspiring Leaders of 2021.
Job Titles:
- Vice President Investor Relations
Job Titles:
- Member of the Audit Committee
- Audit Committee
- Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of PepsiCo
Hugh F. Johnston is Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of PepsiCo, a global food and beverage company that maintains a product portfolio with 23 brands generating more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales. Mr. Johnston joined PepsiCo in 1987 and has served in a variety of senior leadership positions, including Executive Vice President, Global Operations, PepsiCo; President, Pepsi-Cola North America; Senior Vice President, Transformation, PepsiCo; Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, PepsiCo Beverages and Foods; and Senior Vice President, Mergers and Acquisitions, PepsiCo. Mr. Johnston currently also serves as a member of the board and chair of the audit committee of Microsoft Corporation. Mr. Johnston is active with a number of corporate, NGO and academic organizations, including the University of Chicago's Booth School CFO Forum Advisory Board, Syracuse University's Whitman School of Management Advisory Council, and the Peterson Institute for International Economics. In addition, he is a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Advisory Council and the CNBC Global CFO Council. Mr. Johnston holds a B.S. from Syracuse University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President - Government Relations
Jeff Cohen is senior vice president, government relations for HCA Healthcare, one of the nation's leading providers of healthcare services. Cohen manages global government affairs for HCA Healthcare.
Prior to joining HCA Healthcare, Cohen spent 20 years with the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH), the trade association representing the investor-owned hospital industry. As executive vice president, public affairs, Cohen managed all advocacy, public affairs and communications for the association. In this role, he worked closely with Fortune 500 and privately-held member companies and acted as chief lobbyist for the association.
While with the FAH, Cohen played a leading role in promoting expanded access and healthcare coverage, and has led numerous successful efforts to preserve funding for hospital care. Other notable achievements include working to enact legislation that prohibits self-referral to physician owned hospitals; requiring the VA to reimburse hospitals promptly; authorizing the Secretary of HHS to extend the waiver of the EMTALA in the case of a pandemic; among many others.
Prior to joining the FAH in December 1999, Cohen served as senior legislative assistant to former Rep. Karen L. Thurman (D-FL), a member of the House Ways and Means Committee and its Subcommittee on Health. From 1995-1999, he advised Rep. Thurman on health policy matters addressed by the Subcommittee, specializing in Medicare access and Medicare payment issues.
Cohen has been recognized by The Hill newspaper as one of the "top lobbyists" in the hospital industry. He received a Masters of Arts degree in Latin American studies from the University of Florida and a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Trinity University.
Job Titles:
- Chief Human Resources Officer
- Senior Vice President
- Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer of Nashville
Jennifer Berres serves as the senior vice president and chief human resources officer of Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare, one of the nation's leading providers of healthcare services. In this role, Jennifer is responsible for delivering value to patients, physicians, communities and shareholders through innovative HR strategies and people practices. She leads a team of over 1,600 HR professionals and is responsible for talent acquisition, leadership and organizational development, compensation benefits, labor and employee relations, diversity and inclusion, and employee engagement.
Since joining HCA Healthcare in 1993, Jennifer has served in several progressive leadership roles. Her experience crosses over various lines of business including hospital operations, shared services and physician services. Most recently, Jennifer served as the vice president of HR business partners and prior to that served as vice president of talent management. Jennifer has twenty years of field experience including 11 years as the vice president of human resources for HCA Healthcare's West Florida Division. In this role, she was responsible for providing strategic HR leadership for a division of 15 hospitals and over 15,000 employees. Prior to joining the West Florida Division, Jennifer served as a regional human resources director for HCA Healthcare's shared services, where she helped lead the consolidation of business office and supply chain operations across the state of Florida. Jennifer has also served in several hospital-based roles, including HR and decision support.
Jennifer earned an undergraduate degree in Business Administration/Marketing from the University of South Florida and a Master of Business Administration from Saint Leo University. She brings a strong operational and business focus, with a passion for people and HCA Healthcare's mission: above all else, we are committed to the care and improvement of human life.
Job Titles:
- Chief Operating Officer
- Executive Vice President
- Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Nashville
Jon Foster is executive vice president and chief operating officer of Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare, one of the nation's leading providers of healthcare services.
A 22-year veteran of HCA Healthcare, Foster was appointed COO on January 1, 2023 after serving as president of HCA Healthcare's American Group since 2011. His previous role as president of the American Group included 91 hospitals across Colorado, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas and the United Kingdom, and included approximately one-half of the company's revenue.
Prior to 2011, Foster served as president and CEO of Austin, Texas-based St. David's HealthCare, a seven-hospital healthcare system with 60 locations throughout the central Texas region. Before coming to HCA Healthcare, Foster served as the executive vice president of operations for the Baptist Health System of East Tennessee. His career began in 1986 at the Methodist Healthcare System in Houston, Texas, where he served until 1991.
Foster holds a BBA degree from Baylor University and an MS degree in Healthcare Management from Trinity University.
Job Titles:
- Chief Development Officer
- Senior Vice President
- Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer of Nashville
Joe Sowell is senior vice president and chief development officer of Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare, one of the nation's leading providers of healthcare services. His responsibilities include all development functions and transactions related to HCA Healthcare's investment in or acquisition or divestiture of any business, including hospitals, outpatient centers, physician practices, healthcare IT and early-stage innovative healthcare companies. Sowell is also responsible for real estate development.
Joe joined HCA Healthcare on December 1, 2009. Prior to joining HCA Healthcare, he was a partner at Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis where he practiced in the areas of healthcare law, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity financing, tax law and general corporate law and co-managed the firm's Corporate and Commercial Transactions practice. He has led numerous large health care transactions.
Sowell is an active supporter of numerous Nashville charitable and nonprofit organizations including The Nashville Ballet, St. Luke's Community House and Room In The Inn - Campus for Human Development.
Sowell earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Alabama in 1978 and his law degree from the University of Alabama in 1981. He also has a master of laws degree, which he earned from the University of Florida in 1982. Joe is a member of the Tennessee Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the Health Law Committee of the Nashville Bar Association.
Job Titles:
- Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer
- Senior Vice President
- Senior Vice President and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer of Nashville
Kathi Whalen is senior vice president and chief ethics and compliance officer of Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare, one of the nation's leading providers of healthcare services. In her position, she is responsible for HCA Healthcare's Ethics and Compliance, Regulatory Compliance, Information Protection & Security, and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion departments. Kathi is also chair of HCA Healthcare's Sustainability Steering Committee.
Prior to assuming her current role in January 2019, Kathi served as vice president of ethics and compliance, overseeing the Program Development and Compliance Program Assessment teams.
Prior to joining HCA Healthcare in January 1998, Kathi served as associate counsel to President Clinton with responsibility for the White House's ethics program. Kathi began her government service in the ethics division of the General Counsel's Office at the U.S. Commerce Department. Prior to that, she practiced labor and employment law in Dayton, Ohio.
Kathi serves on the boards of the HCA Healthcare Foundation, Project Transformation Tennessee and Thistle Farms. She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Edward C. Kennedy Center for Business Ethics at Belmont University.
Kathi received her B.A. in History from the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, and her J.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Law, Nashville, Tennessee.
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President
- Senior Vice President, Payer Contracting & Alignment
Kathryn Torres is senior vice president, payer contracting & alignment for Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare, one of the nation's leading providers of healthcare services. Torres joined HCA Healthcare in 1993 and most recently served as vice president of employer and payer engagement. She holds a J.D. from the University of Arizona College of Law.
Meg G. Crofton retired from The Walt Disney Company in 2015, after a 35 year career with that company. From 2006 until 2013, she was President of Walt Disney World, the largest site in Disney's Parks and Resorts division, and from 2011 until her retirement in 2015, she served as President of Disney's Parks and Resorts Operations, U.S. and France. Ms. Crofton has also served as a director of Tupperware Brands Corporation since 2016 and as a director of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. since 2017.
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President - Finance
- Senior Vice President of Finance for Nashville
Mike Marks is the senior vice president of finance for Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare, one of the nation's leading providers of healthcare services. Marks overseas Parallon, Case Management and Performance Improvement areas as well as the company's financial resiliency program
In 2021, Marks led the next phase of our financial resiliency efforts for HCA Healthcare and is the financial operations representative to the Care Transformation & Innovation team. Marks continues to identify ways to improve and gain efficiencies throughout the organization. In addition, Marks is participating and leading various existing initiatives including advancing and operationalizing many of our technology efforts, advancing our analytical processes and capabilities as well as a number of other focus areas for HCA Healthcare.
In 2008, Marks was the chief financial officer of the National Group of HCA Healthcare. He was responsible for HCA Healthcare's financial operations in 13 states, which included 89 hospitals.
From 2004-2008, Marks served as CFO of the HCA Healthcare West Florida Division, where he was responsible for all operations and development activities for 15 hospitals in West and Central Florida. He began his career at HCA Healthcare in 1996 as a Senior Manager in Internal Audit and subsequently served as the Eastern Group Controller and the CFO for a two hospital system in Ocala, Florida.
Job Titles:
- Chief Legal Officer
- Senior Vice President
- Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer for Nashville
Michael R. McAlevey is senior vice president and chief legal officer for Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare, one of the nation's leading providers of healthcare services. Prior to joining HCA Healthcare in 2022, McAlevey was with General Electric Company for 19 years, serving in multiple senior leadership positions. His most recent role at GE was as the global General Counsel and Business Development leader for GE Healthcare, based in Chicago, IL. Prior to GE Healthcare, McAlevey served as global General Counsel and Business Development leader for GE Aviation, based in Cincinnati, OH. He started his GE career in 2003 as GE's chief corporate, securities and governance counsel. McAlevey has led very large legal and business development departments, with significant experience in legal, investigative and compliance matters and deal identification, negotiation and execution.
Before joining GE, McAlevey served as Deputy Director of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Corporation Finance from 1998 to 2002. Prior to that, he was a partner with Alston & Bird, LLP from 1990 to 1998 and an adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center from 1999 to 2002.
McAlevey has a bachelor's degree from Washington & Lee University, where he currently serves as chairman of the board of trustees. He received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. Following law school, McAlevey served as a law clerk to the Honorable Emmett R. Cox, United States Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Audit Committee
- Audit Committee
Michael W. Michelson is a retired, long-term member of the private equity firm, KKR & Co. L.P. Mr. Michelson previously served as a director of HCA from 2006 to 2016. He also serves as a director of Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. since June 2015. He began his professional career with the law firm of Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles, where he was involved in a broad corporate practice while specializing in management buyouts. He earned an A.B. from Harvard College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
- Partner at Consonance Capital Partners
Nancy-Ann DeParle is a partner at Consonance Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in innovative health care companies in the lower middle-market. From 2011-January 2013, she was Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy in the Obama White House. A health policy expert, DeParle previously served as Counselor to the President and Director of the White House Office of Health Reform. She spearheaded President Obama's successful effort to enact the Affordable Care Act and managed the initial implementation of the law.
Job Titles:
- Chief Information Officer
- Senior Vice President
- Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Nashville
P. Martin Paslick is senior vice president and chief information officer of Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare, one of the nation's leading providers of healthcare services.
Paslick has been with HCA Healthcare for more than three decades and leads the company's Information Technology Group (ITG), which provides IT strategy and support for HCA Healthcare and its hospitals and sites of care. ITG has more than 6,200 employees across the U.S. and includes five data centers and 15 division support centers responsible for delivering IT services to HCA Healthcare. The department's array of services includes business analysis, systems development, systems integration, information security, customer support, training and education and infrastructure support.
During his career at HCA Healthcare, Paslick has led the development of new IT units to pursue business opportunities and the transformation of the organization's field-based IT operations. He became responsible for the day-to-day operations of IT when he was named the department's first chief operating officer (COO) in 2010 and later appointed HCA Healthcare's chief information officer (CIO) in June of 2012.
Paslick is past chairman of the Nashville Sports Council and the Nashville Technology Council and also a past board member of the Nashville Chamber of Commerce. He holds two undergraduate degrees and an MBA, all from the University of Louisville.
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President - Internal Audit Services
- Senior Vice President of Internal Audit Services for Nashville
Phil Billington is senior vice president of Internal Audit Services for Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare, one of the nation's leading providers of healthcare services. Billington oversees HCA Healthcare's Internal Audit Department, which is responsible for auditing financial reporting controls, facility financial statements, revenue cycle processes, information system controls and compliance with regulatory policies. He is also responsible for the enterprise risk office and business continuity planning of HCA Healthcare.
Phil is an 18-year veteran of HCA Healthcare and previously served as vice president of internal audit. Prior to his career with HCA Healthcare, Phil worked as a managing director for FTI Consulting, Inc., a director for KPMG LLP and was a senior manager at Arthur Andersen LLP.
Phil currently serves on the Board of Abe's Garden Alzheimer's and Memory Care Center. He is a Certified Public Accountant with an MBA and an undergraduate degree in Accounting from Murray State University. He is also a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants.
Job Titles:
- President - Atlantic Group
- President of the Atlantic Group of Nashville
Richard A. Hammett is president of the Atlantic Group of Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare, one of the nation's leading providers of healthcare services. Hammett's responsibilities include the oversight of 68 hospitals and more than 63,000 colleagues across Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Missouri and Kansas.
Prior to his current role, Hammett served as president of HCA Healthcare North Florida Division, comprising of 15 hospitals and more than 120 additional sites of care. Prior to joining the North Florida Division, Hammett served as CEO of HCA Healthcare's Swedish Medical Center in Denver, Colorado, having originally moved to the Denver area to become the CEO of HCA Healthcare's Medical Center of Aurora. Hammett began his career at HCA Healthcare with St. David's Healthcare in Austin, Texas, eventually serving as Chief Operating Officer at St. David's Medical Center.
Hammett began his healthcare career with Baptist Health System of East Tennessee serving in various executive roles. Hammett holds a BS from the University of Alabama and a Master's degree in Health Administration and Business Administration from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
- Compensation
Bob Dennis served as Executive Chairman of Genesco Inc., a specialty retailer, from February 2020 until June 2020. Previously, he served as Genesco's President and Chief Executive Officer from 2008 to February 2020 and as Chairman from April 2010 to February 2020. Dennis served as Genesco's President and Chief Operating Officer from 2006 until 2008, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer from 2005 until 2006 and Senior Vice President from 2004 until 2005.
Dennis previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Hat World Corporation from 2001 to 2004.
A 30-year retail veteran, his experience includes a senior position with Asbury Automotive from 1997 to 1999. From 1984 to 1997 he was with McKinsey & Company, an international consulting firm, becoming a leader of the North American Retail Practice and a partner in 1990.
Dennis holds a master of business administration degree, with distinction, from the Harvard Business School, with a focus on consumer marketing, and bachelor's and master's degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
In addition, Dennis was named a director of HCA Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: HCA) in February 2014. He also joined Corrections Corporation of America (NYSE: CXW) as a director in February 2013. Dennis currently serves on the board of directors with the United Way of Metropolitan Nashville, the Nashville Symphony and the Board of Visitors at Vanderbilt University's Owen School of Management.
Job Titles:
- Chief
- Senior Vice President
Sammie S. Mosier is senior vice president and chief nurse executive for Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare, one of the nation's leading providers of healthcare services. Dr. Mosier leads a team of nurse executives at the regional and facility level, and approximately 93,000 registered nurses working in HCA Healthcare hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and other sites of care.
Mosier joined HCA Healthcare in 1996 as a medical-surgical nurse at Frankfort Regional Medical Center in Frankfort, Kentucky. Throughout her career, Mosier has demonstrated a strong focus on advocating for nurses, driving clinical excellence and colleague engagement, and supporting the professional development of leaders at every level of the organization. She spearheaded HCA Healthcare's Nursing Advocacy Agenda, Unit of Distinction Awards and the HCA Inspire mobile app, which recognizes and connects nurses across the enterprise.
Most recently, Mosier served as the chief nurse executive officer for the HCA Healthcare National Group and vice president of Group Clinical Operations in the Clinical Operations Group. Prior to this role, she served as the vice president and assistant chief nurse executive with the legacy Clinical Service Group since 2016.
Mosier earned a doctorate in healthcare administration, a master's degree in management and leadership from Webster University, and a bachelor's in nursing degree from McKendree University. She is a board-certified nurse executive through the American Nurse Credentialing Center.
Sam Hazen is chief executive officer of HCA Healthcare, one of the nation's leading providers of healthcare services with 182 hospitals and approximately 2,300 ambulatory sites of care, including surgery centers, freestanding ERs, urgent care centers and physician clinics, in 20 states and the United Kingdom. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, HCA Healthcare and its 275,000 employees provide approximately six percent of all U.S. inpatient hospital services.
A 40-year veteran of HCA Healthcare, Hazen was appointed CEO January 1, 2019 after serving as president and chief operating officer since 2016. Hazen has served in various senior positions for HCA Healthcare including president of operations from 2011-2015. Hazen has also served as president of HCA Healthcare's Western Group, which included all operations west of the Mississippi River and represented approximately one-half of the company's revenue.
Prior to 2001, Hazen was chief financial officer for the Western Group. Prior to 1995, he was chief financial officer for two different divisions in the company, overseeing operations in North Texas and various other markets. Hazen began his career in Humana's Financial Management Specialist Program in 1983 and has held chief financial officer position at hospitals in Georgia and Las Vegas.
Hazen currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Nashville Health Care Council, Federation of American Hospitals, and the HCA Healthcare Foundation.
Hazen earned his bachelor's degree in finance from the University of Kentucky and his master's degree in business administration from the University of Nevada Las Vegas.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the HCA Board
Thomas Frist III became Chairman of the HCA Board on April 26, 2019 and has served on the board of directors since 2006.
Mr. Frist is the founder and managing principal of Frist Capital, LLC, a Nashville-based investment firm he founded in 2002 that makes long-term equity investments in public and private companies. He also serves on the board of Verisign Inc., a NYSE traded company based in Reston, VA. Previously, Mr. Frist was a managing member of FS Partners II, LLC in New York and worked at Rainwater, Inc.
Mr. Frist graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Business School.
Job Titles:
- Fellow
- National Group President for Nashville
- President - National Group
Tim M. McManus is National Group president for Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, one of the nation's leading providers of healthcare services. He is responsible for 57 hospitals of HCA Healthcare's hospitals across 11 states. He has been with HCA Healthcare for 15 years, most recently serving as president of the Capital Division based in Richmond, Virginia since 2016.
Through his career, Tim spent over twenty-five years working in numerous leadership positions in hospitals across the country, including CEO of Chippenham and Johnston Willis Hospitals in Richmond and, prior to that, CEO of HCA Northern Virginia and Reston Hospital Center. He has a strong track record for strategically growing healthcare organizations' patient volumes, developing robust service-line expansions, improving customer satisfaction, driving quality improvement and engaging in the communities he serves.
Tim is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. He earned his Master's of Health Services in Finance and Management degree from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and his Bachelor's of Science at Tulane University. Through his career, Tim has served on many nonprofit Boards in the communities he resided which included recently serving as Vice Chairman of Board for the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association. He is currently a member of the American Hospital Association on the Health Systems Committee.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Audit Committee
- Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
- Audit Committee
- Independent Director of Compass Pathways, Plc
Wayne Joseph Riley, M.D. is the President of the State University of New York (SUNY), Downstate Health Sciences University where he also holds academic rank as Professor of Internal Medicine and of Health Policy & Management. Dr. Riley is a Commissioner of the U.S. Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), Chair of the Board of Directors of the New York Academy of Medicine and a President Emeritus of the 150,000 member American College of Physicians, the nation's largest medical specialty organization. From January 2007 until July 2013, Dr. Riley was the 10th President and Chief Executive Officer of Meharry Medical College. Prior to that time, he served as a corporate officer and member of the senior management team as the Vice-President and Vice Dean for Health Affairs and Governmental Relations and Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He joined the faculty there after completing residency training in Baylor's highly regarded internal medicine residency training program.
Dr. Riley, a general internist well versed in clinical medicine, healthcare and healthcare management and policy, is an elected member of the prestigious National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, a Master of the American College of Physicians and a member of the Society of Medical Administrators (SOMA), an organization composed of the nation's leading physician executives. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University; a Master of Public Health in Health Systems Management from Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine; an M.D. from the Morehouse School of Medicine and an MBA from Rice University's Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business.
Dr. Riley is an Independent Director of Compass Pathways, plc, where he serves on the Compensation and Leadership Development and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees. Dr. Riley previously served as an Independent Director of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, where he served on the Corporate Governance & Nominating and Science & Technology committees, as a Director of Pinnacle Financial Partners, where he served on the Audit and Compliance, Nominating and Corporate Governance and Community Affairs committees, and as a member of the Nashville Branch Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
In his rare spare time, Dr. Riley, a jazz aficionado also enjoys reading, golf and spectator sports.
Job Titles:
- Chief Financial Officer
- Executive Vice President
- Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Nashville
- Staff Auditor
William B. Rutherford is chief financial officer and executive vice president of Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA Healthcare, one of the nation's leading providers of healthcare services. As CFO, Rutherford has management responsibility for the company's Treasury Department, Office of the Controller, Information Technology, Investor Relations and HealthTrust Purchasing Group.
A 34-year veteran of HCA Healthcare, Rutherford joined the company as a Staff Auditor in 1986. He served the company in a variety of roles, including director of operations support and chief financial officer for the Georgia Division. From 1996 to 2005, Rutherford was chief financial officer for the Eastern Group. During this time, the Eastern Group comprised approximately 90 hospitals with $12 billion of net revenue.
In 2005, Rutherford left HCA Healthcare to start his own training and education company which led to work with several private equity ventures. He served as chief operating officer of Psychiatric Solutions, a behavioral health services provider, from January 2006 to June 2007.
Rutherford returned to HCA Healthcare in December 2008, serving as chief financial officer of the Outpatient Services Group through January 2011. In this role, he was responsible for HCA Healthcare's company-wide operations of freestanding outpatient facilities to include ambulatory surgery centers, diagnostic imaging and cancer center operations. This also included physician services to support both hospital and outpatient strategies. Prior to his current appointment, Rutherford served as COO of the Clinical and Physician Services Group, helping to provide leadership oversight of physician employment, recruiting and practice management for over 3,000 providers.
Rutherford's current board memberships include Students Taking a Right Stand (STARS) and the Nashville Chamber of Commerce. Past board memberships include Center for Non-Profit Management and YMCA Joe C. Davis Outdoor Center.
Rutherford received a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Tampa and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Job Titles:
- Patient Safety and Quality of Care
- Principal of Frist Capital LLC
William R. Frist is a principal of Frist Capital LLC, a private investment vehicle for Mr. Frist and certain related persons and has held such position since 2003. Mr. Frist is also a general partner in Frisco Partners, another Frist family investment vehicle. Mr. Frist is the brother of Thomas F. Frist, III, who also serves as a director.