Jonathan Witte
Senior Vice President and Chief Counsel, Corporate Law @ Cigna Healthcare
About
An experienced, versatile senior legal leader who has served in many roles in a Fortune 15 health services company and has provided highly valued, strategic advice and counseling to business areas and executives. Played a key role in legal support across multiple functions: • Procurement Contracting and Outsourcing • Litigation Management and Investigations • Data and Cyber Security, Technology, Systems Integrations • Domestic and International Reinsurance Disputes • Marketing and Intellectual Property • Legal Operations • Mergers and Acquisitions • Antitrust • Global Records Management • Risk Mitigation Have also worked closely with international teams, collaborated with audit and risk management, reduced outside counsel and e-discovery expenses, and focused on innovation and cross-training within the legal department. Provided practical, actionable advice and demonstrated adaptability through innovations and partnering to meet business goals. Accomplishments include: • Achieved multi-million-dollar savings by insourcing procurement work, re-engineering legal operations, and using technology to control costs through data analytics and improved e-discovery efficiency. • Developed legal and regulatory framework to launch a new gene therapy drug offering. • Secured significant risk reductions through successful domestic and international reinsurance arbitrations. • Negotiated winning outcomes on challenging large-scale system/outsourcing implementations, recovered damages without suit, and transitioned to new suppliers, avoiding business interruption. • Created and chaired DE&I committee for legal department and increased use of diverse law firms.
United States
Philadelphia
Insurance
Data Privacy, Document Review, Contractual Agreements, Legal Issues, Litigation, Cyberlaw, Health Law, Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property, Legal Advice, Procurement Contracts, Legal Writing, Procurement Outsourcing, Civil Litigation, IT Law
Experience

Senior Vice President and Chief Counsel, Corporate Law
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• Led legal teams of over 80 attorneys, paralegals, project managers and admins. Managed teams handling M&A, Tax, Procurement, Investments, Legal Operations, Intellectual Property, Records Management, Shared Services, and Antitrust. Served as lead Technology counsel on CIO’s SLT. • Routinely reported to the Executive team on various issues. • Developed and expanded Shared Services function to advance critical corporate goals and provide support and infrastructure for businesses. • Achieved multi-million-dollar savings by insourcing procurement work, re-engineering legal operations, streamlining outside counsel, using data analytics, and significantly reducing e-discovery costs.

Senior Vice President and Chief Counsel, US Medical, Medicare, Group Insurance
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• Managed legal teams handling Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplemental, Medicaid, Affordable Care Act (ACA), US Commercial Medical coverages, and Group Insurance (disability/life). Managed broker issues. • Worked on regulatory issues in active legislative, political and judicial environment, including risk challenges to ACA. • Developed legal and regulatory framework to launch a new gene therapy drug offering to address prohibitively high cost of lifesaving drugs. • Created and chaired DE&I committee for legal department to set and meet DE&I goals.

Chief Counsel, International Markets, Global Health Benefits
Cigna
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
• Led legal team handling expat health and life coverage for US citizens. • Provided critical advice to clients on regulatory and sales issues. • Implemented GDPR standards and addressed GDPR inquiries with clients/brokers. • Collaborated with the tax team on issues in multiple jurisdictions. • Elevated to senior leadership team.

Associate Chief Counsel, Commercial Contracting, Procurement, Reinsurance, IP, Records Management
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• Grew and developed the Procurement Legal team handling domestic and international contracts. • Insourced legal procurement work to produce significant savings on outside counsel expense. • Served as lead Reinsurance attorney and managed major US and global arbitrations. • Advanced the Records Management Program and led training globally. • Successfully navigated several outsourcing transitions. • Worked with the Chief Marketing Officer on the launch of a new logo, rolled out across the globe.

Associate Chief Counsel, Litigation, Reinsurance, Records Management
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• Directed major commercial litigation disputes and class actions involving investments, IP and software, M&A transactions and balance sheet issues, tax litigation, life insurance, 401(k) expenses, broker compensation, investigations, international commercial claims, and domestic and international reinsurance. • Established Records Management Program, developed records schedules, and trained records champions.
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