CVS Health on Friday announced several top leadership changes, including the appointment of Tom Cowhey as its next chief financial officer.
Cowhey has held the interim CFO title since October, when the company announced that former Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President Shawn Guertin would be taking a leave of absence.
On Friday, Rhode Island-based CVS announced that Guertin will be stepping down from his roles due to family health reasons, and will leave the company on May 31.
Guertin is known locally in Hartford, where he spent time as Aetna’s CFO, before the health insurer was acquired by CVS Health in 2018.
Cowhey, who joined CVS Health in February 2022, also worked at Aetna, spending more than a decade there in various strategy and finance roles. More recently, he served as chief financial officer of Surgery Partners Inc., a publicly traded surgical facilities operator headquartered in Tennessee.
“We are fortunate to have someone of Tom’s caliber and experience already within CVS Health today and ready to take on the role,” said CVS Health President and CEO Karen S. Lynch. “His experience in health care is deep and broad, and he will drive continuity for our strategy and delivering on our commitments.”
CVS on Friday also formally appointed Mike Pykosz as the company’s president of healthcare delivery. Pykosz is the co-founder and CEO of Oak Street Health, a Chicago-based primary care practice with over 200 locations in 25 states that CVS acquired last year.
During his time at CVS Health, Pykosz has been focused on continuing to run the Oak Street Health business, while also helping to unify all of CVS Health’s care delivery assets, the company said.
