# Gail Koziara Boudreaux

Gail Koziara Boudreaux (née Koziara, born 1960) is an American businesswoman. She is the president and CEO of Elevance Health since 2017, and has been an executive for other health insurance companies including Aetna, BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois (2002), and UnitedHealth Group (2008).
In 2015, Boudreaux formed her own healthcare consulting company, GKB Global Health, LLC. In 2017, she became CEO of Elevance Health. In 2020, Boudreaux was ranked 10th on the Forbes list of "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women" and ranked 14th in 2023. She was ranked 10th on Fortune's list of Most Powerful Women in 2023. In 2023, she made $21.9 million.

## High school

Boudreaux attended Chicopee Comprehensive High School in Chicopee, Massachusetts. Her team twice won the state championship. At 17, she averaged 23.4 points and 20 rebounds a game for the Chicopee Comprehensive girls' basketball team. She ultimately scored a school-record 1,719 career points and was named a Parade All American her senior year. The 6'2" senior center also held the Massachusetts girls' state shot-put record with a throw of 44 feet, six inches.

## College

Koziara led the Big Green women's basketball in scoring for three consecutive years, and still holds many school records. She became Dartmouth's all-time leading scorer and rebounder. She also was named Ivy League Player of the Year three straight seasons, and became a two-time Academic All-American and third team All-American as well. Koziara was honored by the NCAA as a Silver Anniversary Award winner and inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame and Dartmouth's Wearers of the Green Hall of Fame. She led the Big Green to the first of their many Ivy League championships. She also won four straight Ivy League women's shot put titles, with a throw of 46 feet, four inches her senior year. That same year she earned All American recognition in the shot put.
She graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1982. She attended business school at Columbia University and graduated with high honors in 1989.

## Professional career

She spent twenty years at Aetna, then in 2002 was named president of Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois. She became the executive vice president for external operations at Health Care Service Corporation, which encompasses Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois.
In May 2008 she became executive vice president of UnitedHealthcare at UnitedHealth Group. From January 2011 to November 2014, she was the chief executive officer of UnitedHealthcare, the biggest US insurer, with 45 million customers and revenue of $120 billion.
In 2015, months after stepping down from her post of CEO for UnitedHealthcare, Gail founded and became CEO of GKB Global Health, LLC, a healthcare strategy and business advisory firm.
In November 2017, Boudreaux was named CEO of Anthem, Inc. which has since re-branded to Elevance Health, Inc.

## Awards and recognition

As recently as 2021, Boudreaux was also named by Modern Healthcare as one of the Most Powerful People in Healthcare. She was recognized by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal as one of the top 25 industry leaders, and included on Today's Chicago Woman list of 100 Women of Influence.
In 2018, Boudreaux was awarded the Billie Jean King Contribution Award. In 2022, she was awarded the Theodore Roosevelt Award, as well as being inducted into the CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame Class of 2022.
In 2023, Boudreaux became the first female elected chair of The Business Council, an association of top CEOs.

## Personal life

She is married to Terry Boudreaux, they have two sons, and live in Indianapolis.