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 Tenet Healthcare Corporation is a for-profit multinational healthcare services company based in Dallas, Texas, United States. Through its brands, subsidiaries, joint ventures, and partnerships, including United Surgical Partners International (U ...

. He is a senior lecturer in the General Management unit of Harvard Business School (HBS), teaching Leadership and Corporate Accountability in its

MBA A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...

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. He has appeared several times on the “100 Most Influential People in Healthcare" list compiled by ''

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''.

Early life, education

Fetter was born and raised in

La Jolla, California La Jolla ( , ) is a hilly, seaside neighborhood within the city of San Diego, California, United States, occupying of curving coastline along the Pacific Ocean. The population reported in the 2010 census was 46,781. La Jolla is surrounded on ...

, where he graduated from La Jolla High School. He received his bachelor's degree in economics from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

, in 1982, then earned an M.B.A from

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...

, 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 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and abbreviated as MGM, is an American film, television production, distribution and media company owned by amazon (company), Amazon through MGM Holdings, founded o ...

, Inc., as executive vice-president, and was later promoted to chief financial officer. Fetter served as chairman, president and CEO of

between 2003 and 2017, where he oversaw corporate functions, including information systems, finance, law, human resources, communications and administration. 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. Fetter now serves as the lead independent director of The Hartford Financial Services Group, and is a senior lecturer of Business Administration at

, where he teaches leadership and corporate accountability. He has also been named, several times, on ''

s “100 Most Influential People in Healthcare" list, ranking No. 13 in 2014.

Professional affiliations

Fetter was chairman of the

Federation of American Hospitals The Federation of American Hospitals is a trade association for tax-paying hospitals in the United States. It is based in Washington D.C. As of 2009 it was headed by Charles N. Kahn III, "Chip" Kahn. See also *List of industry trade groups in the ...

, 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 The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., usually known as The Hartford, is a United States-based investment and insurance company. The Hartford is a Fortune 500 company headquartered in its namesake city of Hartford, Connecticut. It was ranke ...

. He is also a past member of the

Business Roundtable The Business Roundtable (BRT) is a nonprofit lobbyist association based in Washington, D.C. whose members are chief executive officers of major United States companies. Unlike the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, whose members are entire businesses, BR ...

. Other affiliations include: *

TowerBrook Capital Partners TowerBrook Capital Partners, L.P. is an investment management firm headquartered in London and New York City. TowerBrook spun out of Soros Fund Management in 2005 and became known for acquiring majority stakes in companies such as Jimmy Choo. M ...

– senior advisory board member * Stanford University School of Medicine Board of Fellows * Trimedx, Inc. – independent director *

Catalina Island Conservancy The Catalina Island Conservancy is a nonprofit organization established to protect and restore Santa Catalina Island, California, United States. The Conservancy was established in 1972 through the efforts of the Wrigley and Offield families. The ...

– benefactor member * United States of Care – Founder's Council member *

Smithsonian Institution The Smithsonian Institution ( ), or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums and education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge". Founded ...

National Board – member

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. In 2017, Trevor and Melissa Fetter received the Humanitarian Award from the

Anti-Defamation League The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), formerly known as the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, is an international Jewish non-governmental organization based in the United States specializing in civil rights law. It was founded in late Septe ...

. Melissa Fetter was appointed chair of the board of the

Dallas Museum of Art The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is an art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St. Paul and Harwood. In the 1970s, the museum moved from its previous location in Fair Park to the Art ...

in December 2018.

References

External links

Video
"Strong Effect from Healthcare Reform", CNBC, May 6, 2014.
"The Rebirth of Tenet Healthcare" by Bradford Pearson
March 6, 2013. Retrieved 2019-01-04.

''Becker's Hospital Review'', ASC COMMUNICATIONS, Dec 31, 2014. Retrieved 2019-01-04.

Reference for Business. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
"Key Trends Shaping Healthcare in the U.S. and the Impact on Detroit"
Economic Club of Detroit. Retrieved 2019-01-04.

External links

ForbesWall Street Journal
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