Julie Goon — Senior Vice President of Public Affairs at Elevance Health

Ms. Julie Goon has been Senior Vice President of Public Affairs at WellPoint Inc. since November 2013. Ms. Goon is responsible for leading WellPoint's state and federal government relations activities, issue management and policy development, regulatory affairs, and managing the company's relationships with industry, state and national associations. She has more than 30 years health care-related policy leadership and management experience. She held a number of senior positions in the federal government and in the private sector. She served as Senior Health Policy Director for the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, where she developed and managed Committee strategy surrounding the Affordable Care Act, and Medicaid and Medicare reform. Previously, she served as Director of General Electric's healthymagination marketing initiative, where she developed and executed a strategy focused on GE's global government partners and non-government organizations; and as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy in the National Economic Council. In her career, Ms. Goon held management posts at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), Humana, Inc., and the Colorado Legislative Council. She earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History from Colorado State University in the year 1978 to 1982.