Meg McCarthy is Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Senior Vice President of Procurement and Real Estate. She is responsible for all information technology services, process and performance improvement, procurement and real estate for Aetna.

Ms. McCarthy has served as Vice President and Head of Business Solutions Delivery at Aetna, which brought together all IT project management, development, quality engineering and IT-related business-process reengineering functions, necessary to create, develop and deliver end-to-end business solutions. She was named Aetna CIO in 2005.

Prior to joining Aetna in 2003, Ms. McCarthy was Senior Vice President of Information Technology at CIGNA in Bloomfield, CT (a Fortune 500 employee benefits company). She has 20 years of information systems and health care operations experience, with strengths in hospital, insurance and managed care systems. Her operations and consulting experience includes cost management, mergers, productivity management, care management, clinical work redesign, financial management, and information systems design and implementation.

Ms. McCarthy has worked on the provider side of the industry in CIO positions at Catholic Health Initiatives, Denver, CO, one of the largest Catholic Systems in the country; and at Franciscan Health System. She was a consulting partner at Ernst & Young in the IT and Performance Improvement practice and also was with Andersen Consulting (Accenture) as a Senior Manager.

Ms. McCarthy has a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree, Hospital Administration, from Yale University, and a B.A. in Philosophy, Magna Cum Laude, from Providence College. Her professional affiliations include Yale University Hospital Administration Alumni Association and Yale University Delaware and Massachusetts Alumni Associations. Ms. McCarthy's military experience includes U.S. Navy Medical Services Corps; Lieutenant at Bethesda Naval Hospital; and U.S. Navy Reserves, Lieutenant Commander.