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Pam Stegora Axberg Pam Stegora Axberg currently serves as a Senior Vice President - Optum Behavioral and Physical Health Operations. In this role she leads clinical and administrative operations for 33 million members and 160,000 providers for Optum's behavioral and physical health products. She is also responsible for aligning and building across Optum an end-to-end provider experience service model. Prior to this, she advised the federal government (CMS) on the implementation of the Federally Facilitated Marketplace (healthcare.gov). She has held a multitude of executive leadership roles since joining UnitedHealthcare in 2005. She successfully renegotiated two strategic partnerships which further solidified multi-year partnerships exceeding $1B in value. She led the transformation of the training organization, which supports 20,000 worldwide employees, to diversity and integrate training delivery modes, including e-learning, while improving the efficacy to employee quality and productivity Prior to joining UnitedHealthcare, she spent 20 years at Qwest Communications/U S WEST where she was a Senior Vice President and Officer. While at Qwest Communications, she held numerous executive positions in Operations, Engineering, Customer Service and Product Development in their data, voice and wireless organizations. She led national field and center operations with organizations exceeding 5000 bargained for and non-bargained for employees. She was part of the service transformation which enabled entry into the long distance market, and improved service performance from last to first in industry service benchmarks. Her organization lead the technology replacement and modernization of the switching infrastructure from analog to digital as well as the introduction of IP technology. In addition to her corporate leadership roles, Pam is committed to the development of girls and women’s leadership. Pam currently serves on the Board of Directors for Girls Scouts of River Valley. She previously served on the YWCA Minneapolis Board of Directors including previous positions of Board Chair, Finance Chair, and Circle of Women Chair. For over a decade, she has been the troop leader for Girl Scout Troop 50948 and served as the Registrar for the New Brighton Girl Scout Service Unit. She is also a member of the Women Business Leaders in Healthcare Advisory Board as well as the Board Development Committee for St. Catherine University.