Sarah M. London
Chief Executive Officer
2022 – Present
4 years (current)
Legacy
London leads Centene through Medicaid redeterminations, Marketplace pressure, portfolio simplification, and medical-cost management. She has focused on stabilizing Centene's Medicaid and ACA marketplace insurance businesses amid significant policy uncertainty, including potential Medicaid eligibility redeterminations following the end of pandemic-era continuous-coverage requirements, which threatened to reduce the company's covered-member base substantially. London holds a bachelor's degree in history and literature from Harvard College, where she played Division I tennis, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, giving her an unconventional academic background for a health-insurance-industry CEO relative to more typical finance or medical-industry credentials. She has continued Centene's presence across all 50 states following the WellCare and Health Net acquisitions, managing an insurance portfolio that includes Medicaid, Medicare, and Affordable Care Act marketplace plans serving tens of millions of Americans. She was named CEO at age 41, one of the youngest chief executives leading a Fortune 500 company at the time. She sits on Centene's board of directors in addition to her executive role.