Trevor Fetter

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Trevor Fetter
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La Jolla, California, United States
OccupationSenior lecturer, Harvard Business School
lead independent director, The Hartford

Trevor Fetter is an American businessman, the lead independent director of The Hartford Financial Services Group, and the former president, CEO, and chairman of Tenet Healthcare. He is a senior lecturer in the General Management unit of Harvard Business School (HBS), teaching Leadership and Corporate Accountability in its MBA program; his alma mater, where he is also a founding member of the HBS Healthcare Initiative Advisory Board, and a former member of the Board of Dean's Advisors. [1] He has appeared several times on the “100 Most Influential People in Healthcare" list compiled by Modern Healthcare . [2]

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Early life, education

Fetter was born and raised in La Jolla, California, [3] where he graduated from La Jolla High School. He received his bachelor's degree in economics from Stanford University, in 1982, then earned an M.B.A from Harvard Business School, in 1986.

Career

Fetter began his career with Merrill Lynch Capital Markets, providing corporate finance and advisory services for the entertainment and health care industries. In 1988, he joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., as executive vice-president, and was later promoted to chief financial officer. [4] [5]

Fetter served as chairman, president and CEO of Tenet Healthcare between 2003 and 2017, [4] where he oversaw corporate functions, including information systems, finance, law, human resources, communications and administration. [6] [7] [8] In February 2017, he left Tenet to serve as the founding chairman and CEO of Broadlane, Inc. In November 2002, he returned to Tenet to serve as company president, and was named acting CEO in May 2003. [4]

Fetter now serves as the lead independent director of The Hartford Financial Services Group, [9] and is a senior lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he teaches leadership and corporate accountability. He has also been named, several times, on Modern Healthcare's “100 Most Influential People in Healthcare" list, ranking No. 13 in 2014. [2]

Professional affiliations

Fetter was chairman of the Federation of American Hospitals, from March 2009 to March 2010, during the passage of The Affordable Care Act; chaired the board of directors of Tenet Healthcare, from May 7, 2015, to October 23, 2017; and is on the board of The Hartford. He is also a past member of the Business Roundtable. [4] [10]

Other affiliations include:

Personal life

He is married to (Susan) Melissa Foster, and was wed in Episcopal Church by the same Bishop who had performed his parents' marriage ceremony 26 years earlier. [3]

In 2017, Trevor and Melissa Fetter received the Humanitarian Award from the Anti-Defamation League. [15]

Melissa Fetter was appointed chair of the board of the Dallas Museum of Art in December 2018. [16]

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  2. 1 2 "100 Most Influential People in Healthcare – 2014". Modern Healthcare . 2014. Retrieved 2014-11-20.
  3. 1 2 "Susan M. Foster Greenwich Bride". New York Times . July 10, 1983. Retrieved 2014-11-20.
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  6. ↑ "Meet CEO Trevor Fetter". D Magazine . May 2007. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  7. ↑ "Deep Healing". Smart Business. 26 June 2009. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  8. ↑ Norton, Leslie P. (3 Oct 2015). "Tenet Healthcare Is on the Mend". Barron's . Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  9. ↑ Larsen, Eric (21 September 2018). "Lessons from the C-suite". Advisory Board. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  10. ↑ "Movers to Watch – Tenet Healthcare (THC), Comerica (CMA), Fidelity National Financial (FNF), MAXIMUS (MMS)". Techsonian. May 8, 2015. Retrieved 2015-05-10.
  11. ↑ "Trevor Fetter". Towerbrook.com. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  12. ↑ "Board of Directors". Catalinaconservancy.org. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  13. ↑ "Leadership". UnitedStatesofcare.org. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  14. ↑ "Smithsonian National Board". Giving.si.edu, Smithsonian Institution . Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  15. ↑ "Melissa and Trevor Fetter honored at Henry Cohn Humanitarian Award Dinner". adl.org, Anti-Defamation League, Dallas. 15 May 2017. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  16. ↑ "Dallas Museum of Art announces Melissa Fetter as new Chairman of the Board". Artdaily.com. Dec 2018. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
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