Who was Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare fatally shot in Manhattan? | CNN Business

New York CNN  — 

Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, who was fatally shot in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday in what New York police called a “brazen, targeted attack,” was a longtime leader in Corporate America, a model student and star high school athlete – and he had been caught up in a high-profile insider trading lawsuit this year.

Thompson, 50, lived in Minnesota and was visiting New York for UnitedHealthcare’s annual investors conference before he was killed.

Thompson was appointed chief executive of UnitedHealthcare in 2021 and had been at the company since 2004.

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