Thomas E. Rattmann, CFA, has been elected chairman of the Board of Directors of Excellus BlueCross BlueShield and its parent company. He succeeds A. Thomas Hildebrandt.
Rattmann is chairman of the board of Columbian Financial Group, a life insurance organization based in Binghamton, NY that is primarily focused on the issuance of small-face life insurance products. He retired as Columbian’s chief executive officer in December 2016.
Rattmann has been a member of company’s governing board since 2010. He continues as chairman of the Regional Advisory Board of Excellus BlueCross BlueShield Southern Tier Region.
In his career Rattmann has served on boards of directors of leading life insurance industry trade organizations, including as past chairman of the Life Insurance Council of New York and as a director of the American Council of Life Insurers. He also has served on the boards of directors of various community organizations in the greater Binghamton area.
Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, a nonprofit independent licensee of the BlueCross BlueShield Association, is part of a family of companies that finances and delivers vital health care services to about 1.5 million people across upstate New York. Excellus BlueCross BlueShield provides access to high-quality, affordable health coverage, including valuable health-related resources that our members use every day, such as cost-saving prescription drug discounts and wellness tracking tools.
Date:May 20, 2017