Edward J. Ludwig

Mr. Ludwig is lead independent director for the board of directors at Boston Scientific, director of CVS, and chair of the CVS board finance committee.

He formerly served as chairman of the board, president, and CEO of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company); as director and lead independent director of the Aetna insurance company; as chair of the Finance, Innovation & Technology Committee at Xylem, Inc.; and as chairman of the board at AdvaMed. He also served as a senior auditor with Coopers and Lybrand (now PwC), and as a financial and strategic analyst at Kidde, Inc.

Mr. Ludwig is a founding board member of The Center for Higher Ambition Leadership (CHL), and a past chair of the Health Advisory Board for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He was a member of the board of trustees at the College of the Holy Cross and of the Columbia Business School board of overseers, and a trustee of the Hackensack University Medical Center Network Board of Trustees.

Mr. Ludwig graduated from The College of the Holy Cross with a BA in economics and accounting, and received his MBA in finance from Columbia University.