News Briefs: Oscar Adds More Aetna Vets to Executive Team
Oscar Health, Inc. on Sept. 6 announced that it added two new executives to its leadership team from CVS/Aetna, the former employer of Oscar CEO Mark Bertolini. Kerry Sain joined the firm in August as executive vice president of the technology platform +Oscar, and Steven Kelmar will assume the role of executive vice president and chief of staff to the CEO later this month, Oscar said. Before coming to Oscar, Sain was Aetna’s chief commercial growth officer, while Kelmar was chief of staff, executive vice president and head of strategy for the office of the chairman and CEO at Aetna, as well as senior vice president of strategy implementation at CVS Health. Bertolini was Aetna’s CEO prior to its acquisition by CVS Health Corp. in 2018; after the deal closed, he served on CVS Health’s board until leaving in 2020.