
Chet Burrell, MPA Chairman
Chet Burrell has held numerous CEO level positions and chairmanship roles in the US healthcare system for nearly 40 years in both the public and private sectors covering the for-profit and non-profit arenas. He has led major private payers (three times the President/CEO of different Blue Cross/Blue Shield Plans) providing health care coverage to millions…
Chet Burrell has held numerous CEO level positions and chairmanship roles in the US healthcare system for nearly 40 years in both the public and private sectors covering the for-profit and non-profit arenas. He has led major private payers (three times the President/CEO of different Blue Cross/Blue Shield Plans) providing health care coverage to millions of subscribers as well as start-up and mid-stage health technology companies backed by private equity and venture partners.
Along the way, he has successfully overseen investments in over 40 health care technology and service companies especially in his leadership role as the CEO of the largest private payer and health benefits management company in the mid-Atlantic area (CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield).
Through much of his career, Mr. Burrell has led pioneering efforts to reform financing approaches to healthcare involving financial incentives for providers and value-based payment models to reward more cost effective, higher quality care. These efforts have been marked by joint efforts with government policy makers and regulators as public-private initiatives in attempts to find solutions to ever increasingly unaffordable health care costs in the US.
Currently, Mr. Burrell is the Managing Member of Silavon Healthcare Holdings, LLC – an entity he established to pursue targeted areas of interest in the healthcare field. In this capacity, Mr. Burrell is now engaged in finding and overseeing highly selective investments in healthcare companies in the US that are believed to offer both high social impact value and high investment value potential. These efforts are typically undertaken in concert with other private equity players and family offices that share similar objectives.