Managed care provider Cigna Corp. hired Xerox executive Mark Boxer as its chief information officer, a homecoming for the health-systems veteran.
Boxer, who will lead Cigna’s global technology strategy, succeeds Philip Emond, who is retiring.
The pair will work together during a transition period through summer, Cigna said Tuesday.
They work out of Cigna’s Philadelphia headquarters. Cigna’s national claims headquarters is Bloomfield.
Boxer most recently was the group president of government health care for ACS/Xerox and global deputy chief information officer (CIO) for Xerox Corp., based in Norwalk. He also has served as CIO at WellPoint, parent of Anthem Blue Cross of Connecticut, and in a variety of other IT executive roles.
More than a decade ago, Boxer led Cigna’s eCommerce practice and played a major IT leadership role during its $1.7 billion Healthsource acquisition and integration in 1997.
