Thomas O'Neil

Tom O’Neil is a managing director with broad private- and public-sector experience, including leadership roles in boardrooms and C-suites of companies in the consumer, financial services, and healthcare sectors.

As a governance, compliance, and risk management thought leader, Mr. O’Neil partners effectively with financial sponsors, corporate boards, and leadership teams to drive ethical and sustainable growth through disruptive innovation and fulfillment of stakeholder expectations. An adept communicator, he thrives in high-growth, turnaround, restructuring, and crisis settings. During a distinguished career spanning several decades, he has developed an exceptional record of accelerating cultural transformation and restoring trust with regulators, enforcement officials, and investors. He has chaired the audit and risk oversight; ethics and compliance; and nominating and governance committees of corporate and mutual fund boards.

In his most recent corporate leadership role, Mr. O’Neil was the global chief compliance officer of Cigna Corporation, a health service company with over 70,000 employees and approximately $160 billion in top-line revenue. He has held a number of positions in public companies, including executive vice chairman, general counsel, and secretary of WellCare Health Plans, Inc. and senior vice president and general counsel of the MCI Group. Mr. O’Neil also has been a partner at two global law firms: DLA Piper LLP (US) and Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells US LLP). During his tenure at DLA Piper, he was a joint global practice group leader and chaired the US Government Affairs practice group.