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Charles D. Kennedy, MD

Charles is a recognized expert in healthcare delivery, finance and information technology with over 25 years of experience as a C-level executive and board advisor at several leading companies. He leads the firm’s overall strategic focus and is a member of the Investment Committee.

Prior to Blue Ox, Charles was Chief Population Health Officer for Healthagen, Aetna’s healthcare IT subsidiary. He also launched and served as CEO of Aetna’s Accountable Care Solutions division, growing it to a multi-billion-dollar company. Before Aetna, Charles was CEO of Anthem’s HealthCore subsidiary after creating Anthem’s strategy to enter clinical research, Vice President of Health Information Technology for WellPoint, Co-Founder and CEO of CareAssured, and Director of Strategic Informatics at Blue Shield of California. Previously, Charles was a practicing physician on the medical staff at Kaiser Permanente and other Northern California medical facilities for seven years.

Charles currently serves on the board of Blue Ox portfolio company Epic Sciences, and previously served on the board of Sera Prognostics, as well as the AHIP Foundation and the advisory board for the Center for Healthcare Innovation, Healthcare and Life Science Innovation Lab. He was also a founding commissioner of the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) and served a five-year appointment as the health insurance industry representative to the US Government on the HIT Policy Committee advising the management and distribution of a $30 billion budget.  

Charles holds an MD in Internal Medicine from the University of California at Los Angeles, an MBA in Corporate Strategy and Health Care Economics from Stanford University, and a BS in Genetics from the University of California at Berkeley.