Pat Clarey

How She Empowers Others

Patricia (“Pat”) Clarey is senior vice president, chief regulatory and external relations officer of Health Net, Inc. Health Net, Inc. is among the nation’s largest publicly traded managed health care companies. Ms. Clarey is responsible for federal and state regulatory and legislative relations, internal and external communications, Health Net’s charitable foundation, and the company’s compliance activities.

From 2001 to 2003, Ms. Clarey held the position of vice president of Government Relations at Health Net, Inc. In 2003, she left the company to serve as a member of the senior leadership team that ran the successful election that brought California Governor Schwarzenegger into office. She then joined his administration as chief of staff.

Ms. Clarey returned to Health Net in 2006, and served as chief operating officer of the company’s Health Plan Division and Health Net of California prior to taking on her new role.

Ms. Clarey has more than 25 years of experience in both the public and private sectors. She has held senior management positions at Chevron Corporation and Transamerica Corporation, and served as president of the Transamerica Foundation in San Francisco. In addition, Ms. Clarey served as deputy chief of staff to former California Governor Pete Wilson. She also held senior positions in the federal government at the National Park Service and the Department of the Interior.

Ms. Clarey received her master’s degree in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., and her bachelor’s degree from Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. She currently serves on several appointed boards and commissions, and was a Senior Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a Senior Fellow at the UCLA School of Public Policy.

Health Net provides health benefits to more than 6 million individuals across the country through group, individual, Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE and Veterans Affairs programs. Health Net’s behavioral health subsidiary, MHN, provides mental health benefits to approximately 7 million individuals in all 50 states. The company's subsidiaries also offer managed health care products related to prescription drugs, and offer managed health care product coordination for multi-region employers and administrative services for medical groups and self-funded benefits programs.