Diane Holder

Diane Holder has been at the forefront of leading health care innovation for over 30 years. As immediate past President and CEO of UPMC Health Plan and Executive Vice President of UPMC, she built a family of health Insurance and benefit management companies that in 2024 served over four million members and recognized over $17 billion in revenue. 

Her career has spanned leadership positions in health care delivery and health care financing. She served as President of Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, one of the nation’s premier academic research and training hospitals, and as the founding CEO of Community Care Behavioral Health, one of the nation’s largest Not-For-Profit Behavioral Health Organization, serving over 1.5 million Medicaid members.

She also established the UPMC Center for High Value Health Care in 2011 which serves as a research and training center for the UPMC Insurance Division and partners with the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences and community organizations to translate and scale best practices. To date the Center has received over 60 million in external funding and produced over 300 articles in peer review publications. 

Holder has served in leadership capacities for numerous policy related committees including as the co-chair of the National Academy of Medicine’s Value Incentives and Systems Collaboration focused on health care payment reform.

Holder led the UPMC partnership with the Advisory Board Company to create Evolent specializing in assisting providers and payers in care and payment transformation. Serving as a director, she helped to facilitate a public offering in 2015 and grow the company significantly during the past decade.  

Holder was named by Modern Health Care in 2021 and 2022 as one of the “100 Most Influential People in Health Care”. She was named by Governor Wolf as a “Daughter of Pennsylvania”. She was recognized as “Woman who Makes a Difference” by the International Women’s Forum. She was recognized as an “Athena” awardee for her support and mentorship of women leaders and multiple times by the Pittsburgh Business Times including a career recognition award. 

Holder’s service to national and regional boards includes: the Alliance of Community Health Plans; American Health Insurance Plans; Evolent; the Heinz History Center, a Smithsonian affiliate (where she served as the first woman chair of the board since the founding in 1879); the Allegheny Conference; the United Way;  Chatham University; the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Carnegie Library.  In addition, she served on several boards of UPMC related organizations including hospitals, insurance and software companies; the University of Pittsburgh Board of Trustees and as Chair of the Visiting Board of the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health. She is a faculty member of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and adjunct faculty, University of Pittsburgh, School of Public Health. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and her graduate degree from Columbia University.