David Guilmette

President, National, Pharmacy and Product

David Guilmette is President, National, Pharmacy and Product for Cigna Corporation. He is responsible for leading business strategy and overall marketplace execution for the National, Seniors and Individual and Family business segments, the Pharmacy line of business, and the Marketing and Product organizations. Prior to this role, he had been President of Cigna’s National Segment since February 2010.

Prior to joining Cigna, Guilmette was the Managing Director of the Towers Perrin (Towers Watson) global Health & Welfare line of business, responsible for leading the growth and profitability of the Health & Welfare business, and identifying trends in the marketplace relating to health care.

Guilmette has 30 years of experience with health care and employee benefit programs. He has led major benefit strategy assignments for several Fortune 500 companies, focusing on all aspects of program design, financing, implementation, administration, consumerism (including Consumer Directed Health plan designs) and managed health care delivery. These projects resulted in the clients realigning programs to better support business and human resource needs and reduced costs.

Guilmette is a recognized expert on health care issues. He is often quoted in the national business media including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, USA Today, CNBC, CNN, Business Week TV, the PBS Nightly Business Report, National Public Radio, along with leading industry publications on health care issues.

Guilmette is a graduate of the University of Chicago, where he received his undergraduate degree in Political Science in 1982.