MICHAEL B. MCCALLISTER President & CEO Humana Inc.

As Humana’s President and CEO, Mike McCallister has led the Fortune 100 company to a leadership position within the health-benefits industry. During Mike’s tenure, Humana, based in Louisville, Ky., has gained a reputation as the nation’s premier health-benefits innovator, leveraging new products, processes and technology to solve the employer’s cost dilemma through a consumer-centric value proposition. Under Mike’s direction, Humana is defining a new world of health benefits featuring consumer-choice health plans that empower employers and consumers to choose, finance and use their health benefits with confidence and success.

Mike has an extensive history with Humana, having joined the company in 1974 as a finance specialist. From 1975 to 1980, he served successively as an administrator and associate executive director for Humana hospitals in Louisiana, Mississippi and California. He became executive director of Humana Hospital-Huntington Beach (California) in 1980 and served as CEO for Humana hospitals in California and Arizona for the next nine years.

He was promoted to vice president in 1989 with responsibility for the integrated operations of Humana’s hospitals and health plans in Arizona. In 1992 he began serving in the same capacity in Texas, becoming responsible for Humana’s health plan operations exclusively after the company spun off its hospitals in 1993.

Mike was appointed division president, in charge of Humana’s Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico operations, in 1996. For the three years prior to being named President and CEO in February 2000, he had senior management responsibility for health plan operations throughout the company.

Mike plays a leadership role in key industry advocacy organizations. He is on the board of the Business Roundtable and America's Health Insurance Plans, the health benefits industry's principal trade association, and also serves on the College of Administration and Business Advisory Board of Louisiana Tech University. In his community, Mike is a former board member of the Greater Louisville Fund for the Arts and a former executive committee member of Greater Louisville Inc. (the metro chamber of commerce).

Mike holds an MBA degree from Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., and a bachelor’s degree from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, La.