Mark Bartolini: Aetna CEO

Mark Bartolini was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1956. He held various jobs while he was in high school and college. This included assembly work at a Ford Motor Company plant and a number of caregiver roles in health care delivery. 

He earned a bachelor’s of arts from Wayne State University and holds and MBA from the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. 

Before he joined Aetna, Mark held executive positions at Cigna, NYLCare Health Plans, and SelectCare, Inc., where he served as president and CEO. He joined Aetna as head of its Speciality Products in 2003. Marked served as president from July 2007 to December 2014, and was responsible for all of Aetna’s businesses and operations across the firm’s broad range of health care products and related services — including medical, pharmacy, dental, behavioral health, group life and disability plans, as well as medical management capabilities and health care management services for Medicaid plans. 

Mark became CEO in November 29, 2010, and Chairman on April 8, 2011. Aetna is a diversified health care benefits company with around $58 billion total revenue in 2014. 

Lowell McAdam: Verizon CEO

Lowell McAdam was born in 1954 in Buffalo, New York. He went to Cornell University and earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering. Lowell earned his MBA from the University of San Diego. He worked for six year in the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps and qualified as a licensed professional engineer in 1979.

From 1983 to 1993 Lowell held a number of executive positions with Pacific Bell.  This included being area vice president of Bay Area marketing and general manger of South Bay customer services.  He then joined AirTouch in 1993 as executive director of international applications and operations. Lowell has served as vice president-international operations for AirTouch Communications and was lead technical partner for cellular ventures in Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Italy, Korea and Japan.

Lowell was president and CEO PrimeCo Personal Communications, a joint venture between Bell Atlantic and Vodafone AirTouch. He then held various executive positions at Verizon Wireless since it was formed in 2000 and was named president and CEO from 2007 until he was promoted to COO of Verizon.

After serving as president and COO, Lowell became CEO of Verizon on August 1, 2011 and chairman on January 1, 2012.

Navy Man Turned Business Executive

Lowell McAdam was born in 1954 and earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Cornell University. He went on to earn his MBA degree from the University of San Diego.  McAdam first worked for the government spending six years in the U.S. Navy’s Civil Engineer Corps.  He is also a licensed professional engineer.

He’s future lay with the private sector though. In 1983 McAdam joined Pacific Bell and stayed with the company until 1993. He held a number of executive positions in the company including vice president of Bay Area marketing.  McAdam then joined AirTouch in an executive position and was lead technical partner for cellular ventures in European and Asian countries.

He became the president and CEO of another company, PrimeCo Personal Communications before joining Verizon Wireless when it began in 2000. He built the company into the industry’s leading wireless provider and the largest wireless voice and 3G broadband data network.  For his work he eventually became the president and CEO of Verizon Wireless in 2007 until he became the CEO of Verizon.

McAdam became president and COO in October 2010. He was promoted to CEO on August 2011 and chairman on January 2012.

The former navy man leads a huge company. Verizon deals with customers in more than 150 countries as well as all of the Fortune 500. In the U.S. it has 98 million retail customers and had revenues of almost $116 billion in 2012.