President/CEO, Catholic Healthcare West

Lloyd H. Dean is president/CEO of Catholic Healthcare West an integrated health care system where he is responsible for the organization's $12 billion in assets, overall management, governance, strategy and direction. He has led CHW through significant strategic, operational and financial transformations to its current focus on being a high quality provider of patient care with successful financial results.

Prior to joining CHW in 2000, Dean was executive vice president and chief operating officer of Advocate Health Care, a faith-based integrated healthcare delivery system in Oak Brook, IL. During his tenure, Advocate Health Care was named one of the nation's Top 100 Integrated Networks by Modern Healthcare magazine. Prior to Advocate Health Care, Dean was with the Upjohn Company, where he held key executive and operational management positions for the company’s Health Care Services Division including national vice president of sales and executive vice president of marketing. He received the prestigious W.E. Upjohn Award for his management and operational excellence.

Dean serves as chair of the Board of Directors for the Bay Area Council, the business-sponsored, public-policy advocacy organization for the San Francisco Bay Area and is a member of the Board of Directors of Mercy Housing California, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to developing, operating and financing affordable housing. Dean serves on the Board of Directors of Wells Fargo & Company and is a member of its Board Audit & Examination Committee and Board Credit Committee. Previously he served on the Board of Trustees of CHAUSA and also served as chair. He was appointed to Governor Schwarzenegger's California Commission for Jobs & Economic Growth. Dean actively participated in Health Care Reform discussions with President Obama and his staff at the White House in support of CHW's commitment to the disenfranchised and underserved.

He received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the University of San Francisco, in 2010 was ranked number 24 in Modern Healthcare's "Top 100 People In Healthcare" and also was named one of the "Top 25 Minority Leaders In Healthcare."