Carol Burt

Carol J. Burt, principal of Burt-Hilliard Investments, is a private investor with more than 30 years of experience in operations, strategy, corporate finance and investment banking. Ms. Burt serves as an operating partner for Consonance Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm focused on the healthcare industry. Ms. Burt serves on the boards of WellCare Health Plans, Inc., a publicly-held managed care company focused on government-sponsored healthcare programs including Medicare and Medicaid plans; Vanguard Health Systems, Inc., a publicly-held hospital management company focused on developing regionally-focused integrated healthcare delivery networks; and Envision Healthcare, a publicly-held company providing physician-led outsourced medical services. Ms. Burt was formerly an executive of WellPoint, Inc. where she served from 1997 to 2007, most recently as WellPoint’s Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance and Development. Ms. Burt was a member of the executive team that built WellPoint from a single state Blue plan to one of the country’s leading health benefits companies with revenues of $61 billion. In her time at WellPoint, Ms. Burt was responsible for among other things, corporate strategic planning and execution, mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, finance, treasury and real estate management. In addition, WellPoint’s financial services and international insurance business units reported to her. Before joining WellPoint, Ms. Burt was senior vice president finance and treasurer at American Medical Response, a $1.3 billion revenue company. Ms. Burt also spent 16 years at Chase Securities, Inc. (now JP Morgan), most recently as managing director and head of the healthcare investment banking group