Blue Shield of California’s new CEO Paul Markovich has added Michael Mathias as chief information officer at the San Francisco-based nonprofit health insurer — and the newest addition to the newly minted CEO’s management team.
Blue Shield has dramatically reshuffled its senior executives since former CEO Bruce Bodaken announced his retirement and said second-in-command Markovich would replace him on Jan. 1.
Markovich said Monday that Mathias, a 16-year vet at rival Aetna Inc., had joined the organization as chief information officer and senior vice president. Mathias reports Markovich, who took over Bodaken’s posts of president and CEO, but not chairman.
Mathias was most recently CIO at Aetna; before that, he was chief technology officer. He fills the role left vacant last June, when former CIO Elinor MacKinnon left the organization.
MacKinnon resurfaced in early September as managing director and CIO at San Francisco’s Esurance Inc.
The San Francisco Business Timesreported on a flurry of executive changes at the 3.3 million enrollee, 5,000-person health insurer in mid-December, noting that six of Blue Shield’s top 12 officers had already left or were on their way out the door.