Humana appoints new chief strategy officer

In his role, Mr Kusserow will be responsible for leading the company’s strategic planning function as well as its merger and acquisition and venture-capital activities. He will report to Mike McCallister, Humana’s president and CEO.

Mr Kusserow was most recently managing director of private equity at the Chicago-based investment firm BC Ziegler and Company. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wesleyan University and has earned an MA with honors from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Mr McCallister said: “Paul brings a broad base of entrepreneurial and operational experience, solid financial results and dynamic creative thinking to this new role. A robust strategic planning function is vital to a public company at any time, but especially in today’s economic climate. Paul is ideally prepared to help position Humana for continued long-term growth and success in a changing marketplace.”