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Kaiser Permanente

KP Chairman & CEO Bernard J. Tyson serves as the 38th Chair of Bay Area Council

Bernard J. Tyson is the chairman and CEO of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Hospitals — known as Kaiser Permanente, one of America’s leading integrated health care providers and not-for-profit health plans. With annual operating revenue of nearly $73 billion, Kaiser Permanente serves 12 million members in eight states and the District of Columbia. Tyson’s influence in the business community has been felt both nationally and internationally. In 2017, he was included on the TIME 100 list of the most influential people in the world; in 2016, Modern Healthcare named him the second most influential leader in health care. Kaiser Permanente was one of the Bay Area Council’s founding members in 1945 and has been among its most committed supporters over the past seven decades.