PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Regence recently named several
recognized business and community leaders to its Board of Directors, who will
help guide the company as Regence strives to transform health care for its
members and the communities it serves.
Paula Banks heads P.A. Banks Enterprises, Inc., where she is a consultant
specializing in strategic planning related to social strategy and policy for
corporations and non-profits. She most recently served as corporate officer
and senior vice president of Global Diversity and Inclusion with PepsiCo,
where she helped establish the company as a leader in promoting an inclusive
work environment. She also served as the senior vice president of Social
Strategy and Policy for BP and spent more than 24 years in leadership
positions at Sears Roebuck and Company. Banks serves on the Corporate Advisory
Boards of the National Urban League, National Council of Negro Women and Women
Work. She holds degrees in Math and Psychology from Loyola University and
completed the International Advanced Management Program at Harvard University.
Banks serves on the boards of Centers for New Horizons and The Salvation
Army/Chicago Temple Corporation.
Keith Grinstein is a partner in Second Avenue Partners and a strategic
advisor for Madrona Venture Capital. He has held numerous leadership positions
in the telecommunications industry, including executive chairman of AT&T
Wireless, vice chairman of McCaw Cellular and president and CEO of Nextel
International, one of the 50 best performers on NASDAQ since its inception. He
previously held positions as general counsel and vice president at both Lin
Broadcasting and McCaw Cellular. Grinstein currently serves as Chairman of the
Board for Coinstar and is on the Board of Directors of F5 Networks and True
Blue, Inc., (formerly Labor Ready). He is a graduate of Yale University and
Georgetown Law School.
Luis Machuca is the president and chief executive officer of Kryptiq
Corporation, the leading provider of next generation connectivity solutions
for healthcare. Machuca spent 15 years in various leadership positions at
Intel, where he helped establish the company as the leading motherboard
supplier in the world. His leadership experience also includes serving as
president and chief operating officer of eFusion Corp, where he merged the
company with ITXC. Machuca currently serves on the Oregon Health & Science
University Foundation Board of Trustees and the University of Portland Board
of Regents. He received both his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering
and his master's degree in manufacturing systems engineering from Purdue
University.
Dr. Cynthia A. Bioteau is the president and CEO of Salt Lake Community
College and has more than 30 years of experience as an educator and
administrator. She created the first associate degree in Nanotechnology for
the state of North Carolina and helped design The National Center for the
Biotechnology Workforce, a biotechnology initiative funded through the U.S.
Department of Labor. Dr. Bioteau serves on several boards, including Economic
Development Corporation of Utah and the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce Board of
Governors. Dr. Bioteau earned her Doctor of Philosophy Degree at Lesley
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
John W. Morgan is president and CEO of HemCon Medical Technologies Inc,
where he has helped the company expand their product offerings from military
to civilian markets. He previously served as president of the mid-American
region at Baxter International Inc. Morgan also served as president-Americas
for Regent Medical Products, president and CEO of Epitope, Inc. and president
and CEO of Curon Medical, Inc. He serves on several boards, including the
Oregon Bioscience Association, BioQuiddity, Inc. and the Oregon Innovation
Council. Morgan earned his degree in public administration and economics from
the University of Arizona.
D. Kurt Seppi, M.D., a family physician, is medical director and managing
partner of Physician Center in Twin Falls, a 19-provider multi-specialty
primary care group. He joined Physician Center in 1987 and has been president
and managing partner since 1996. He has also been medical director at Magic
Valley Regional Medical Center Home Health Care in Twin Falls since 1996. Dr.
Seppi has served as a member of the Regence BlueShield of Idaho Board of
Directors since 1997 and was recently re-elected to a one-year term as the
chair.
About Regence
Regence is the largest health insurer in the Northwest / Intermountain
Region, offering health, life and dental insurance. Regence serves three
million members as Regence BlueShield (in Washington), Regence BlueCross
BlueShield of Oregon, Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Utah and Regence
BlueShield of Idaho. Each health plan is a not-for-profit independent licensee
of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Regence is committed to
improving the health of our members and our communities, and to transforming
our health care system. For more information, please visit
http://www.regence.com.
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