Leadership

President and Chief Executive Officer

Karen Ignagni

Karen Ignagni serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of the EmblemHealth family of companies, which includes EmblemHealth, AdvantageCare Physicians, ConnectiCare, and WellSpark.

Ms. Ignagni has won many accolades for her leadership in the health care industry, earning recognition by leading publications including the The New York Times, National Journal, The Hill, Time Magazinemagazine, The the Washingtonian, Fortune Magazinemagazine, and Modern Healthcare, for her extensive health policy background and intrinsic feel for politics.

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Executive Leadership

Senior Leadership

EmblemHealth Board Members

John Feerick, Esq.

Chairman, EmblemHealth, Professor of Law and Former Dean of Fordham University

John D. Feerick, Esq. has served as a director of EmblemHealth since 2006 and was a director of GHI from 1998 to 2008. He has served as a law professor at Fordham University Law School since 1982, and was Dean of the school from 1982 to 2002. Mr. Feerick has served as a director of the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University from 2002 to 2018. He was a trustee of New York Medical College from 2000 to 2007. Mr. Feerick served as a director of Wyeth, Inc. from 1987 to 2008, which included 12 years as Chairman of its Audit Committee. Mr. Feerick was a director of Sentinel Group Funds, a diversified family of open-end mutual funds from 1984 to 2009, and was a trustee of the Sentinel Pennsylvania Tax Free Trust from 1993 to 2006. Mr. Feerick served on the audit and pricing committee of the Sentinel Group Funds from 1994 to 2006 and from 2007 to 2009, and on the audit committee of Sentinel Pennsylvania Tax Free Trust from 1994 to 2006. Mr. Feerick served as a board member of GTJ REIT, Inc., a real estate investment trust, from 2006 to 2007. Mr. Feerick served as Chairman of the New York State Ethics Commission from April 2007 to September 2007, and served as Chairman of the New York State Commission on Public Integrity from September 2007 to February 2009. Mr. Feerick chaired the New York State Government Integrity Commission from 1987 to 1990 and also the New York State Commission to Promote Public Confidence in Judicial Elections from 2002 to 2005 and the Judiciary's Cameras in the Court Committee. Mr. Feerick served as President of the Citizens Union Foundation for a period of years and served as a lawyer at the firm of Skadden, Arps Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP from 1961 to 1982. Also, past service includes serving as a representative of New York City to the Office of Collective Bargaining and serving as a member of the New York State Law Revision Commission as well as a member of the Special Panel on Family Homelessness in New York City and as a Judicial Referee of Public Funding for the New York City public schools. Past private service includes serving as president of the New York City Bar Association and chairing the Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association and the Fund for Modern Courts. Currently serves as Co-Chair of the New York Chief Judge's Attorney Emeritus Council.

Richard Berman

Interim Director of the Patel College of Global Sustainability

Interim Director of the Patel College of Global Sustainability; Visiting Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, Muma College of Business; and Professor, Institute for Innovation & Advanced Discovery, University of South Florida. -- Richard A. Berman has served as a director of EmblemHealth since 2006, and was a director of HIP from 1996 to 2006. He is a Visiting Social Entrepreneurship Professor at the Muma College of Business, and a Professor for the Institute for Advanced Discovery & Innovation. He was the Interim Dean of the Patel College of Global Sustainability from 2015-2017, at the University of South Florida. Mr. Berman was the President and CEO of LICAS, Inc., a K-12, college and university and health care consulting firm that he founded in 2009. He was elected to membership of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) in 1986. He has served as a senior advisor to the Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. He received two Fulbright Specialist Program grants to work in Uganda and Rwanda. Mr. Berman was also a consultant to the Joint Special Representative of the African Union/United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Darfur. He was President of Manhattanville College from 1995 to 2009. He was a member of the Board of Westchester County Medical Corporation from 1998 until 2009, and served as Chairman of its Board of Directors from 2006 to 2009. Mr. Berman served as a health care specialist for Korn-Ferry International from 1990 to 1991 and for McKinsey & Company from 1987 to 1990. Mr. Berman was a trustee of the State University of New York (SUNY) from 1993-1995. He also served as an Executive Vice President of New York University Medical Center from 1983 to 1986, served as the Commissioner of the Division of Housing and Community Renewal for New York State from 1981 to 1983, and was the Director of the New York State Office of Health Systems Management from 1977 to 1980. Mr. Berman was the Chairman of the Board of Seeds of Peace from 2007-2012 and a board member since 2003. Mr. Berman was also a board member of Lillian Vernon Corporation, a publicly traded direct mail company, from 1997 to 2003.

Gregory Floyd

President of Teamsters Local 237, IBT

Gregory Floyd serves as the President of Teamsters Local 237, IBT. As the largest local in the 1.4 million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 237—with nearly 24,000 members—represents a diverse group of public employees in New York City and on Long Island, with job titles that span the spectrum of public service from School Safety Agents, to NYCHA Caretakers, to Public Hospital Police, to Civil Service Attorneys, to name just a few. Mr. Floyd has been a committed and dedicated union member since joining Teamsters Local 237 more than 33 years ago. His strong leadership abilities enabled him to advance from a hospital police officer position to the rank of captain with the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), making him the youngest hospital police captain in the HHC’s history. In 1994, Mr. Floyd was appointed Local 237’s deputy director for peace officer titles by President Carl Haynes and in 1999 he became director of Local 237’s Citywide Division. In January 2003, Mr. Floyd was elected to serve as trustee on Local 237’s Executive Board. A year later, he won election as the union’s secretary-treasurer and was also appointed chief negotiator. In March 2007, Mr. Floyd was elected to serve as the union’s 5th president and, in October 2009, he was elected to his first full term. In October 2014, Mr. Floyd was overwhelmingly elected to serve another term. In April 2015, he was appointed to serve as an International Trustee on the General Executive Board of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT). In June 2016, Mr. Floyd was elected Vice President-at Large by the General Executive Board of the IBT. Mr. Floyd also serves as a trustee to the Board of New York City Employees’ Retirement System (NYCERS), one of the largest public pension funds in the nation, with assets of $41 billion. Additionally, Mr. Floyd is a vice president of the New York State AFL-CIO and the New York City Central Labor Council, as well as secretary of the Municipal Labor Committee and the recording secretary of the Executive Board of Teamsters Joint Council 16. He was also recently cited by the Institutional Investor as among the “40 most influential people in the battle to decide the future of U.S. pensions.” Mr. Floyd is a featured columnist for both the Amsterdam News and HuffPost, and the host of a public affairs program on radio station 970 AM, “Reaching Out with Gregory Floyd,” which airs in New York City and on Long Island on Time Warner and other cable TV systems.

Rosa Gil, DSW

Founder, President and CEO of Comunilife, Inc.

Dr. Rosa M. Gil is the Founder, President and CEO of Comunilife, Inc., a health and human services agency founded in 1989 to improve the quality of life and create a healthier tomorrow for New Yorkers with special needs in the Hispanic and broader community by providing culturally competent health and human services and a continuum of affordable and supportive housing for homeless persons. Comunilife has been recognized for developing Community-Defined Best Practices for Latinos. She has had a distinguished career in the fields of health, mental health, social services, and higher education. Dr. Gil served as a Mayor’s Health Policy Advisor. She is the former Chairperson of the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation, Executive Director of Woodhull Medical Center and Metropolitan Hospital, Senior Vice President of Generation and Northern Manhattan Health Network, Senior Vice President of Mental Hygiene Services at the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation, and Executive Deputy Commissioner for Families and Children Services at the NYC Human Resources Administration. Dr. Gil is the former University Dean for Health Sciences at the City University of New York. Some of her accomplishments include prevention and wellness initiatives; expansion of primary care; implementation of Medicaid managed care in New York City; increased access to health insurance; creation a continuum of supportive housing for seniors, persons living with HIV/AIDS and mental illness; creation of NYC’s first Medical Respite Housing Program and the nationally recognized Life is Precious™ Program for Latina teens at risk of suicide. Dr. Gil has been appointed to numerous boards, including the NYC Mayor's Commission on Health Care for our Neighborhoods, NYS Suicide Prevention Council, the Board of Health (NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene), NYC Community Services Board (NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene), NYC Mayor’s Supportive Housing Task Force, and NYS Governor’s Interagency Council on Homelessness. Dr. Gil is a member of President Jimmy Carter’s Mental Health Task Force and the Board of Trustees of EmblemHealth. Previously, she also served as a member of the Commission of Health Care Facilities in the 21st Century (The Berger Commission), and the Minority Women Panel on Health Experts (U.S. Public Health Services). Dr. Gil has published numerous articles on mental health, ethnicity, and child welfare and gender issues. She is the co-author of the "The Maria Paradox," the first authoritative book on self-esteem and Hispanic women.

Karen Ignagni

President and Chief Executive Officer of EmblemHealth

Karen Ignagni serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of EmblemHealth, a New York City-based not-for-profit health insurance company. EmblemHealth was formed through the merger of two New York legacy insurance plans, Group Health Incorporated (GHI) and Health Plan of New York (HIP), and today provides quality, affordable health care coverage and administrative services to approximately 3.1 million people. Prior to joining EmblemHealth in September 2015, Ms. Ignagni was President and CEO of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the insurance industry association that represents providers of health and supplemental benefits to more than 200 million Americans. At AHIP, Ms. Ignagni was active in working with the White House and congressional leadership on the development of health reform legislation, including the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). She also led two mergers with other organizations to form AHIP, and made it the leading voice for the health plan community in America. During her tenure, AHIP was ranked by Washington insiders as the second most effective trade association in Washington. Ms. Ignagni also directed the AFL-CIO’s Department of Employee Benefits. She was a Professional Staff Member on the U.S. Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee and worked at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Ms. Ignagni has won many accolades for her leadership in the health care industry, earning recognition by leading publications, including The New York Times, National Journal, The Hill, Time magazine, the Washingtonian, Fortune magazine, and Modern Healthcare, for her extensive health policy background and intrinsic feel for politics. In 2017, Ms. Ignagni received the Heritage Healthcare Leadership Award and was named one of Crain’s 50 Most Powerful Women in New York. She serves on the Governor’s Council on Women and Girls and also serves on the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) State Insurance Advisory Board.