Celine Cannizzaro

Celine Cannizzaro

Head of Pharmacy & Healthcare Strategy
Berkshire Hathaway

Celine serves as Head of Pharmacy & Healthcare Strategy for Berkshire Hathaway, overseeing R&D to drive innovation and installing moonshot strategies across nearly 300,000 lives. Celine recently transitioned out of serving as Head of Health & Wellness for the Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO), with responsibility for the company’s Health and Wellness strategy and well-being of its more than 55,000 covered lives. She was recently appointed to Board of Directors for Purchaser Business Group on Health (PBGH) and is the Chair of the Strategy Committee.

Prior to joining GEICO in 2021, Celine spent time at Haven, where she was Head of Pharmacy Services and Strategy, and Headspace, Inc., where she was Head of Channel Partnerships. She has also held Regional Vice President of Sales roles at Sword Health and Truveris, in addition to various roles with CVS Health and CVS Caremark.

Celine is passionate about going beyond standard health care to bring care to people in every corner of the country and the world, regardless of their socioeconomic status, by identifying, solving, and preventing unnecessary complexities in our current health care system. She earned her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Photography with a minor in Foreign Languages from Loyola University Maryland. Celine resides in New Jersey with her husband Brian, daughter Sophia, son Gabriel, and two rambunctious dogs Minnie and Meatball.