Name: Dr. Shantanu Nundy
Previous title: Executive vice president of care delivery and chief health officer, Accolade
New title: Chief medical officer, Humana
Nundy will become Humana’s new CMO effective Aug. 31, the Kentucky-based insurer announced Thursday.
He’s replacing Kate Goodrich, who served as CMO from 2022 to October 2025, when she left for a role in the health services division of Humana’s rival insurer UnitedHealth. The CMO post has sat empty since.
As CMO, Nundy will help design Humana’s products, platforms and use of artificial intelligence with a clinical eye, according to the release.
The executive comes to Humana from Accolade, a health navigation and care delivery company, where he worked for five years. Prior to that, Nundy advised the Food and Drug Administration on AI, worked as a senior health specialist at the World Bank, directed the nonprofit Human Diagnosis Project, and managed clinical innovation at Evolent Health.
He also teaches at Stanford Healthcare and Johns Hopkins’ business school, and is a practicing primary care physician at Neighborhood Health, a community health center for low-income patients in Northern Virginia, according to his Linkedin.
Nundy’s “experience at the intersection of clinical outcomes, technology, and the consumer experience” will be value adds for Humana, CEO Jim Rechtin said in a statement.
Humana has been laser-focused on improving margins after a difficult few years, when higher medical spending ate into its profits. The company has benefited from higher reimbursement this year, especially from more generous Medicare Advantage rates, along with its own moves to wrangle down spending, like exiting unprofitable markets.
But there’s more to do — Humana is refreshing its operating model to be more efficient, including through the use of AI. And the company is prepping for another year of culling plans, executives told investors in July.
Humana has also embarked on a broader corporate refresh, recently adding AI and banking executives to its board of directors and nabbing a new president of Medicaid, a key growth area for the insurer. The latter is part of the insurance leadership transition Humana outlined last year, when then-president of its insurance division, George Renaudin, announced his retirement.
Former Amazon executive Aaron Martin was brought on to succeed Renaudin, and John Barger, Humana’s Medicaid president, was promoted to president of Medicare Advantage.
