Charlie Baker, Jr.

Charles Baker is president and CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. Before coming to Harvard Pilgrim in May 1999, he was president and CEO of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates.

Prior to joining Harvard Vanguard, Baker spent eight years in Massachusetts state government, where he served as Secretary of Administration and Finance and Secretary of Health and Human Services during the Weld and Cellucci administrations. His focus was reforming the Massachusetts Medicaid program and overseeing a major overhaul of the Commonwealth's regulatory and purchasing functions.

Baker currently serves on the Massachusetts Board of Education, and on the boards of The Kenneth B. Schwartz Center, the Pioneer Institute, the Big Brother Association, the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, and the American Association of Health Plans. He chairs the Massachusetts Association of Health Plans.

He received a Master's Degree in management, concentrating in public administration and finance, from Northwestern's Kellogg School and a B.A. in english from Harvard College.