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Joined É«Ç鱦±´: 2024

Appointed to Current Role: 2024

About:

Loretta Cecil serves as É«Ç鱦±´â€™s global general counsel, providing strategic legal guidance and overseeing the company’s global legal function. Cecil has more than 40 years of experience as an executive and legal professional, most recently as executive vice president and general counsel for Change Healthcare Inc., one of the world’s largest healthcare IT companies. In that role, she led all legal and compliance support for Change Healthcare’s successful initial public offering in 2019. The company was acquired by UnitedHealth Group in October 2022 in a $13-billion transaction.

In her professional past, Cecil spent more than a decade at McKesson Corporation, serving as senior vice president, governance relations and general counsel for the technology solutions business unit. Prior to that, she was law vice president, chief counsel, and ethics and compliance officer for NCR Corporation and general attorney for AT&T Corp.

Awards and Recognitions:

Cecil is the recipient of the Corporate Counsel's Women, Power and Influence Lifetime Achievement Award and a two-time finalist for the prestigious Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Awards. She has won 13 national awards for excellence in compliance training and her corporate governance and board work has been nominated for several shareholder engagement recognitions, including by the New York Stock Exchange in 2014 and the Corporate Secretaries of America in 2015. In 2021, she led a team that was named Corporate Secretary's Best Compliance & Ethics Program, Corporate Counsel's Compliance Department of the Year, and a Value Champion by the Association of Corporate Counsel.

Education:

Cecil earned a law degree with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Involvement:

Envision Healthcare: Board Member