The shooting happened not long before a scheduled investor conference at the Hilton.UnitedHealthGroup Chief Executive CEO Andrew Witty took the stage about one hour after the event started to announce the rest of the program would be cancelled. “We’re dealing with avery seriousmedical situ...
'" saidChuck Randolph, chief security officer for Ontic, an Austin, Texas-based provider of threat management software. "This is an inflection point where the idea of executive protection is now raised to the board level. Everyone I know in the industry is feeling this." Threats against corpo...
The recent murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson could further intensify these concerns. Executive recruiters, board members, and current CEOs privately acknowledged to me that the incident might deter highly qualified candidates from aspiring to the CEO position, particularly at polariz...
Tisch called the shooting a “brazen, targeted attack.” Thompson, the healthcare executive, got to UnitedHealth in 2004 and was the leader of UnitedHealthcare, the company’s insurance division. -Zach Schonfeld contributed. UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting...
In health care, Cigna, Humana and UHG disclose such benefits in their proxy statements for their CEOs. Vaccine makers Moderna and Pfizer in 2023 revealed that they each had spent upwards of $1 million on executive security for their CEOs. In a proxy filing two days before the shooting, Walg...
Luigi Nicholas Mangione, the suspect inthe fatal shooting of a healthcare executivein New York City, apparently was living a charmed life: the grandson of a wealthy real estate developer, valedictorian of his elite Baltimore prep school and with degrees from one of the nation’s top private uni...
This undated photo provided by UnitedHealth Group shows UnitedHealthcare chief executive officer Brian Thompson.UnitedHealth Group via AP The suspect appeared to lie in wait near the Hilton Hotel. After Thompson exited his hotel and walked across the street to ...
Health insurance is a big industry and a small community; many members of the CenTeam crossed paths with Brian during their careers," said Centene Chief Executive Officer, Sarah M. London. "He was a person with a deep sense of empathy and clear passion for improving acce...
New York police detective Yousef Demes said the shooter, whom he identified as Mangione, fired several times at the health care executive but that an autopsy showed a gunshot wound to the torso caused the CEO’s death, according to the warrant. ...
While Thompson had an in-house security detail during his New York City visit, it wasn't with him at the time of the shooting,accordingto CNN, which cited a source familiar with UnitedHealthcare's security. In the wake of the attack, corporate security experts said companies should take ti...