Janet Widmann

Janet Widmann has more than 25 years of senior executive and board experience in health care services, medical aesthetics, retail multi-site and technology-enabled companies. She has a proven track record of developing and leading small cap and multi-billion-dollar P&L at venture-backed, for-profit and not-for-profit companies.

As President and CEO, Ms. Widmann led the turnaround and transaction of the largest private pay multi-specialty dental health system exclusively for children, and the turnaround of a national autism platform. She served for nearly a decade at Blue Shield of California as Executive Vice President, where she had sole P&L responsibility for the company’s $15 billion in annual revenue and 3.5 million members. Previously, she served as Health Net’s Chief Operations Officer for the company’s dental and vision subsidiaries.

Ms. Widmann is a member of the Board of Directors for Avista Corporation (NYSE: AVA), a utilities company spanning the Pacific Northwest, and an advisor to Vida Health, a digital health care company. She has served on numerous private and public companies including Versant Health, Cutera, Delta Dental of California, and as a Governor’s Appointee to the California Health Professions Education Foundation Board of Trustees.

Consistently named one of the Bay Area’s Most Influential Women in Business, Ms. Widmann has been a member of McKinsey & Company’s Bay Area Women’s Executive Roundtable, International Women’s Forum, and The Committee of 200.

Ms. Widmann earned an MHA at the University of Southern California, and a BS in Health Administration at California State University, Northridge. She lives with her husband, daughter and two dogs in the Bay Area. Ms. Widmann earned an MHA at the University of Southern California, and a BS in Health Administration at California State University, Northridge. She lives with her husband, daughter and two dogs in the Bay Area.