Our leadership

Brian Thompson was named chief executive officer for UnitedHealthcare in April 2021. Prior to this role, Brian served as chief executive officer of UnitedHealthcare's government programs including Medicare & Retirement, the largest business dedicated to the health and well-being needs of seniors and other Medicare beneficiaries; and Community & State, which proudly serves 6 million Medicaid members in 31 states, plus Washington D.C. 

Prior to leading government programs, Brian served as chief executive officer of the Medicare & Retirement organization. Brian joined UnitedHealth Group in 2004 and since then has held numerous leadership positions including chief financial officer for UnitedHealthcare’s Employer & Individual, Community & State and Medicare & Retirement businesses. In addition, he has served as the financial controller for UnitedHealthcare's Employer & Individual business as well as a director in Corporate Development. 

Prior to joining UnitedHealth Group, Brian was a practicing CPA at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, serving as a manager in the Transaction Advisory Services group of the Audit practice.

Dr. Anne Docimo is chief medical officer of UnitedHealthcare, responsible for the clinical, cost and experience outcomes of more than 50 million members in UnitedHealthcare’s Commercial, Medicare and Medicaid health plans. She works diligently with both internal and external stakeholders to develop and implement clinical strategies and programs to improve the overall health care system and help us deliver on our mission of making the health care system work better for everyone. 

Dr. Docimo has served as a physician leader in the evolving health care marketplace for more than 20 years. As a practicing clinician in primary care and emergency medicine, she worked in private practice, as a government contractor, in a staff-model HMO and in academic medical centers. Most recently, Dr. Docimo served as the executive vice president of Population Health and chief clinical transformation officer for Jefferson Health in Philadelphia. 

Prior to joining Jefferson Health, Dr. Docimo served both as chief medical officer for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), as well as senior medical director of UPMC Hospitals. While at UPMC, Dr. Docimo led the design and development of a proprietary system for care management and a claims-based member record. As a physician executive in both provider and payer organization, Dr. Docimo has experience in using clinical and claims data to design and implement population health programs to improve clinical and financial outcomes.

Stephanie Fehr is chief people officer for UnitedHealthcare. Stephanie brings over 20 years of human resources and talent development experience to her role at UnitedHealthcare and is responsible for building the UnitedHealthcare talent infrastructure.

Before joining UnitedHealthcare, Stephanie held human resources and talent leadership roles in Apple’s operations, leadership development, and retail divisions. She led the design, development and implementation of Apple's leadership training program, AMP, and has been a key member of Apple’s retail executive team.

Bill Golden is the chief executive officer of UnitedHealthcare Employer & Individual, a $50 billion division of UnitedHealthcare and the nation’s largest business serving the health coverage and well-being needs of employers and their employees.

Prior to being named CEO of UnitedHealthcare Employer & Individual, Bill led its Local Markets business, serving the health coverage and well-being needs of employers and organizations with 2-3,000 employees across 24 health plans in four regions. As Local Markets CEO, Bill had responsibility for $48 billion revenue, 250,000 employer groups and more than 15 million members nationwide. 

Bill joined UnitedHealthcare through the Oxford Health Plans acquisition in 2004. He became the New York Health Plan CEO in 2006 and was elevated to Northeast Region CEO in 2013. Prior to joining UnitedHealthcare, Bill held various sales leadership positions at NYLCare and MetLife.

Bill is a board member of the New York State Business Council, Lincoln Center Business Council and Each One Counts Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides grant funding to programs dedicated to easing the physical and emotional suffering of children with terminal or chronic illness. 

Kirsten Gorsuch is the chief communications officer for UnitedHealthcare. In this role, she oversees a team that develops and implements communications strategies to enhance and protect UnitedHealthcare’s reputation, create a more favorable business environment and strengthen employee engagement.

Prior to joining UnitedHealthcare, Kirsten served as senior vice president of external affairs for Blue Shield of California where she was responsible for corporate communications, government affairs, alliance management, corporate social responsibility and community relations. She also served as the head of corporate communications at Medtronic, the world’s leading medical device company. Prior to her corporate roles, Kirsten was senior vice president at two global public relations firms, Ketchum and GCI Group, where she counseled a wide range of clients in the health care sector.

She is a former trustee and current member of the Arthur W. Page Society, an organization of individuals who have reached the highest level of practice in the field of corporate communications or public relations.

Thad Johnson is chief legal officer of UnitedHealthcare. In this role, he has overall responsibility for UnitedHealthcare’s legal and regulatory affairs functions. Prior to this, he was general counsel of UnitedHealthcare’s Employer & Individual business and had oversight of legal, compliance, regulatory affairs and health care reform implementation.

Thad joined UnitedHealth Group in 2000 as an associate general counsel and assistant secretary supporting corporate development, treasury and finance. He has held various legal leadership roles, including network, pharmacy, clinical services, transactions, vendor and strategic partnership contracting, and corporate governance and licensing.

Prior to joining UnitedHealth Group, Thad was with Dorsey & Whitney where he advised private and public companies on securities law, merger and acquisitions, debt and equity offerings, private equity placements, corporate governance concerns and other general business matters. 

He previously served on the board of directors for the Children’s Law Center of Minnesota.

Philip Kaufman is chief growth officer of UnitedHealthcare. In this role, he’s responsible for driving growth across the commercial, Medicare and Medicaid businesses by leading innovation, strategy and business planning and development in alignment with UnitedHealthcare’s priorities and enterprise goals. In addition, Philip serves as CEO of the Individual & Family Plan business, which is focused on creating access to affordable health care for consumers by expanding UnitedHealthcare’s presence in the individual exchange market. He also leads our social determinants of health platform and capabilities.

Philip has been with UnitedHealth Group for more than 20 years. Most recently, he was the chief operating officer of UnitedHealthcare Employer & Individual (E&I), where he was accountable for aligning and leading the strategy, operations, product, marketing, advocacy, digital and business advancement functions. Prior to that role, he served as CEO of UnitedHealthcare of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota, where he brought together the enterprise capabilities and functions needed for the successful launch in these new markets. Philip has also held several leadership positions within the Ancillary & Individual division of E&I, including president of UnitedHealthcare Specialty Benefits and CEO of UnitedHealthcare Vision.

Prior to joining UnitedHealth Group, Philip worked in mergers and acquisitions for the Rothschild Group and Deutsche Bank AG.

Mary Murley is senior vice president of risk and analytics for UnitedHealthcare. In this role, Mary leads the development of risk-based partnerships and guides the company’s health care economics and strategies to enhance our data capabilities. In addition, she oversees the actuarial responsibilities for the Government Programs businesses comprising both Medicare & Retirement and Community & State.

Previously, Mary was chief actuary for Medicare & Retirement and led the actuarial, underwriting and health care economic functions. Her responsibilities included valuation of reserves; development
of annual bid filings with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid; trend review and analysis; and forecasting and underwriting. In addition, Mary provides strategic advice regarding UnitedHealthcare’s product offerings and positioning, quality programs, value-based arrangements, and advocacy with external stakeholders.

She has more than 25 years of experience in health care and has worked with a variety of managed care entities, including insurance carriers and providers, across all lines of business. Prior to her
roles at UnitedHealthcare, she worked in actuarial consulting for over 15 years.

Mary is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology and is an associate of the Society of Actuaries and member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

Krista Nelson is chief operating officer for UnitedHealthcare, where she leads global operational performance and experience. In this role, Krista oversees more than 30,000 operations employees and leaders across multiple business areas at UnitedHealthcare. Krista’s priority is improving the experience for clients, consumers, providers and employees. 

Previously, Krista was chief growth and experience officer for UnitedHealthcare, where she led strategy and growth across all four lines of business – commercial, Medicare, Medicaid and global – and accelerated the company’s focus on key stakeholders.

Krista was also chief executive officer for our Individual and Family Plan (IFP) business, where she successfully led our re-entry into the individual exchange market across 18 states. And, she’s been instrumental in growing our social determinants of health and health equity strategies. 

Krista joined UnitedHealth Group in 2009 and has held a variety of leadership roles within the company in strategy, experience, innovation, product development and growth. She is known for driving organic innovation by standing up early-stage businesses and capabilities, from bundle payments, post-acute care and digital health, to new product development.

Prior to joining UnitedHealth Group, Krista worked at Deloitte as a consultant in Strategy & Operations. She spent the majority of her time with the Merger & Acquisition and Customer Market Strategy practices where she worked with multiple Fortune 100 companies to set and accomplish strategic priorities, including improved customer experience, five-year strategic planning, enhanced operational processes, increased customer retention and evaluation and execution of acquisition targets.

Krista earned her MBA from the University of St. Thomas and received a bachelor’s degree in finance and accounting from the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management.

Tim Noel serves as chief executive officer of UnitedHealthcare's Medicare & Retirement business, the largest business dedicated to the health and well-being needs of seniors and other Medicare beneficiaries. Prior to this role, Tim was chief financial officer and senior vice president of Federal Products for Medicare & Retirement, where he was responsible for the overall financial performance of the company as well as the planning, strategy and competitive positioning of Medicare Advantage and Part D products. Tim joined UnitedHealth Group in 2007 and has held a variety of financial and operational leadership roles with responsibility for planning and analysis, financial modeling for mergers and acquisitions, investor relations, and oversight of several financial operations functions.

Prior to joining UnitedHealth Group, Tim held a variety of financial and operational leadership roles, most recently for Northwest Airlines, where he was extensively involved in the bankruptcy reorganization process.

Jeff Putnam is the chief financial officer for UnitedHealthcare. Jeff is responsible for the overall financial management of the combined commercial, Medicare and Medicaid benefits businesses.

Before moving to UnitedHealthcare, Jeff was senior vice president and controller for UnitedHealth Group. He served in this role from 2011 through 2016 and was responsible for the corporate accounting, financial planning and analysis, capital planning, corporate actuarial and accounts payable functions. 

From 2007 through 2010, Jeff was the senior vice president of financial planning and analysis, leading enterprise budgeting and forecasting, management reporting and analysis, accounts payable, and corporate procurement activities. In 2005 and 2006, he served as chief financial officer for the Medicare Advantage business, where he had oversight of financial planning, underwriting and operations. Before joining UnitedHealth Group in 2005, Jeff spent 13 years in the airline industry in various finance and operations senior management roles.  

Jeff currently serves on the board of Second Harvest Heartland, and previously served as a director and board chair of Free Arts Minnesota.

Tim Spilker is the Chief Executive Officer of UnitedHealthcare Community & State. UnitedHealthcare Community & State proudly serves nearly six million Medicaid members, including more than 2.7 million children, in 31 states, plus Washington D.C. UnitedHealthcare is a division of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) which is a diversified health and well-being company with a mission to help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. UnitedHealthcare Community & State leverages the national capabilities of UnitedHealth Group and delivers them at the local market level to support effective care management, strong regulatory partnerships, greater administrative efficiency, improved clinical outcomes, and the ability to adapt to a changing market environment.

Before being named CEO of Community & State, Tim served as CEO of the East Region, where he was responsible for the organization’s Medicaid business strategy and operations in 12 eastern markets. Tim took on the role of CEO for the East Region at Community & State in August 2016. Before becoming East Region CEO, he served as CEO of the UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Kansas. Tim has worked in a variety of industries, including consumer products, community development banking and nonprofit organizations.

Tim earned an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a Masters in Healthcare Delivery Science from Dartmouth College.