Eric Palmer is President and Chief Executive Officer for Evernorth, a Cigna company. Evernorth connects and coordinates best-in-class health services—in pharmacy, benefits management, care and intelligence—to drive the most value for clients, customers, and patients. As CEO, Eric is responsible for Evernorth’s strategic direction and long-term vision to meaningfully change health care. Focused on delivering better outcomes, Eric leads Evernorth’s more than 30,000 colleagues in delivering unbeatable capabilities, clinical expertise and insights to solve some of health care’s biggest challenges. Evernorth has approximately 180 million customer and patient relationships across the health care industry, from health plans to employers to government clients and health systems.Prior to this role, Eric served as President and Chief Operating Officer for Evernorth, overseeing core strategy and capabilities in pharmacy, care management, and benefit management services. Previously, he also served as Chief Financial Officer, responsible for all of Cigna's financial operations and functions, as well as for the organization’s Investment Management, Corporate Development and Underwriting units. Eric’s financial leadership during this time was critical to the successful combination of Cigna and Express Scripts®, as well as the launch of Evernorth. Since joining Cigna in 1998, he has also held leadership positions with Cigna’s U.S. Commercial healthcare business, Cigna's global healthcare business, Cigna-HealthSpring and Cigna's group life and disability insurance business.