Former President, CEO, and Chairman of Tenet Healthcare
Trevor Fetter is a Senior Lecturer on the faculty of Harvard Business School. He teaches two MBA-required courses: Leadership and Corporate Accountability and Financial Reporting and Control, and a Short Intensive Program for MBA students called The Life and Role of the CEO.
After graduating from Harvard Business School in 1986, Trevor worked in investment banking for two years before joining a client, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, ultimately becoming Chief Financial Officer. In 1995, he joined former client Tenet Healthcare Corporation. In 1996, Trevor became Tenet’s Chief Financial Officer. He served in that role through the end of 1999, when he became the founding Chair and CEO of Broadlane, which became a leader in improving healthcare providers' performance in the supply chain using emerging e-commerce technology. Broadlane was featured in Inc. magazine's list of fastest-growing private companies. Trevor served as Broadlane’s Chair and CEO from 2000 through 2002 and non-executive Chair until the company was sold several years later.
Trevor returned to Tenet in late 2002 and was named Chief Executive Officer in 2003. Under his leadership, the company grew to $20 billion in revenue (Fortune 500 #134) and steadily increased EBITDA and margins. The company employed 130,000 people, making it one of the largest employers in the U.S., and had operations in more than 40 states and the United Kingdom. Trevor launched initiatives to reshape its hospital portfolio and form new businesses in revenue cycle management and ambulatory surgery, each of which became multi-billion-dollar businesses and #1 in their respective fields.
Trevor currently serves as the lead independent director of The Hartford Financial Services Group, a diversified Fortune 150 financial services company principally. He also serves on the board of private companies, including Omada Health, TigerConnect, Trimedx Inc., Regent Surgical Health, and the Santa Catalina Island Company. He is a member of the Advisory Boards of TowerBrook Capital Partners, Morrow Sodali, and Access Healthcare. Trevor’s non-profit engagement includes the boards of the Catalina Island Conservancy, the Board of Fellows of Stanford Medicine, and the Smithsonian National Board. At Harvard Business School, he has served on the board of dean’s advisors and the healthcare initiative advisory board. He also serves as an advisor to several early-stage companies seeking to transform essential elements of the healthcare system.
Trevor received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Stanford University in 1982 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1986.