Lois Elaine Quam was born on 1961 and is an American healthcare executive who was President and CEO of Blue Shield of California between January 2025 and March 2025.
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Lois Quam was CEO of Pathfinder International from 2017 to 2024 and was an executive at UnitedHealth Group from 1989 to 2007.
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Lois Quam graduated from Macalester College with a bachelor's degree in political science in 1983.
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Lois Quam was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Trinity College, Oxford, where she received a master's degree and second bachelor's degree in Philosophy, politics, and economics.
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Also in 1989, Lois Quam became chair of the Minnesota Health Care Access Commission.
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Lois Quam left UnitedHealth in 2007 to work in Piper Jaffray's clean energy initiative, leaving the company in 2009 in order to found Tysvar LLC, a business incubator focused on renewable energy in Minnesota.
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Lois Quam stepped down from the company in 2010 to assist her husband, Matt Entenza's, unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign.
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Lois Quam continued to work as a special advisor in the US Department of State until 2014.
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Lois Quam was CEO of The Nature Conservancy from 2014 to 2016, and was CEO of Pathfinder International from 2017 to 2024.
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Lois Quam became President of Blue Shield of California in August 2024, and became CEO of the company in January 2025 following corporate restructuring.
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Lois Quam has published articles in the field of global health, rural health, and health policy.
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Lois Quam married Minnesota state legislator Matt Entenza in 1984; they met as students at Macalester College.
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Lois Quam had three sons with Entenza: Ben and twins Will and Steve.
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Lois Quam was an elected delegate from the Fourth Congressional District in Minnesota to the 2008 Democratic Convention in Denver.
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Lois Quam is a proponent of a public health insurance option.
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Lois Quam is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Lois Quam was named Norwegian American of the year in 2005.
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Lois Quam has been named to Fortune's list of the most influential women leaders in business three times.
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Lois Quam gave the commencement speech at Macalester College in 2011, where she was awarded the distinguished alumni award.
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Lois Quam was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Augsburg College in 2014.