John Santelli is chief information officer at Optum, where he leads the advancement of commercial Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO), business processing, software and cloud services. He also leads Optum technology strategy, planning, coordination and integration with the UnitedHealth Group technology agenda, with a focus on providing innovative solutions across the enterprise. Santelli has played a pivotal role in technology growth and development at UnitedHealth Group. He held the position of chief information officer for Uniprise Technologies from 2004-2006, and chief technology officer for UnitedHealth Group in UnitedHealth Technologies from 2002-2004. He led enterprise architecture and strategic system planning for UnitedHealth Group, established enterprise technology direction with UnitedHealth Group businesses and developed much of the corporate technology architecture.
Santelli joined UnitedHealth Group in 1986 and has extensive experience in software engineering and application development. He has a strong background in the development of high-volume transaction processing systems and medical claim-related systems. He holds a Master’s degree in software engineering from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y. He received his undergraduate degree in computer science from State University of New York, Brockport.