Carol Burt has served as ResMed’s director since November 2013, and is chair of its audit and compliance oversight committee. She is also a member of its nominating and governance committee.
Ms. Burt has been a principal of Burt-Hilliard Investments since 2008, and since January 2013, has served as a senior advisor and operating council member to Consonance Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm focused on investing in the U.S. healthcare industry.
In addition to ResMed, Ms. Burt serves on the boards of IQVIA (NYSE: IQV), a global leader in healthcare information, innovative technology solutions, and contract research services where she serves on the audit committee, Global Medical Response, a privately held medical transportation, fire, integrated health solutions and disaster response company where she serves on the audit and compliance committees; and WellDyne RX, a privately-held pharmacy benefit management company, where she chairs the audit committee. Previously, she served on the public boards of Envision Healthcare, Inc., WellCare Health Plans, Inc., Vanguard Health Systems, Inc., Transitional Hospitals Corporation, and privately held KEPRO.
Ms. Burt was formerly an executive of WellPoint, Inc., now Anthem, Inc (NYSE: ANTM), where she served from 1997 to 2007, most recently as WellPoint’s senior vice president of corporate finance and development. She was a member of the executive team that built WellPoint from a small single-state Blue Cross plan to one of the country’s leading health benefits companies with nationwide reach, revenues of $61 billion, and market cap of $50 billion. She was responsible for Wellpoint’s corporate strategic planning and execution; mergers and acquisitions; strategic investments; finance, treasury, and real estate management; financial services and international insurance businesses.
Before WellPoint, Ms. Burt was senior vice president and treasurer of American Medical Response, overseeing its sale to Laidlaw, Inc. Previously, she spent 16 years at Chase Securities, Inc., now JP Morgan Chase & Co (NYSE: JPM), most recently as managing director and head of the Health Care Investment Banking Group. She founded and built Chase’s Health Care Group into the industry leader in health care financing.
Ms. Burt is a member of Women Corporate Directors, Women’s Forum, and the National Association of Corporate Directors. She most recently served as chair of the Fortune 1000 Working Group for the Women’s Leadership Foundation of Colorado. Over the years, Ms. Burt has served in leadership positions on numerous not-for-profit boards including the current chair for The Nature Conservancy of Colorado.
Ms. Burt graduated magna cum laude, from the University of Houston, earning a Bachelor of Business Administration.