Odette Bolano
Independent Board Director @Idaho Power
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WORK HISTORY
Independent Board Director @Idaho Power
Serve as Independent Board Director, providing strategic and financial governance and oversight for this $5.52B market cap (2024) publicly traded utility. Guide this highly regulated corporation with a complex financial model and rate case submission on risk mitigation, ensuring regulatory compliance while advising on scaling growth across the community. Serve on the Board’s Compensation & HR Committee (since Sept 2023), setting Compensation including short/long-term bonus and pension plans, ensuring Senior Leadership is well within industry range to maintain top leadership and talent.Earlier, served on the Board’s Audit Committee (20••••22), providing financial oversight, IDACORP’s YoY growth, and QoQ financial performance every year, and also participated in investor calls.
EDUCATION
University of Houston
MHA, Healthcare Adminstration
Texas Christian University
BSN, nursing
SKILLS
ABOUT ODETTE BOLANO
As a public independent Board Director and retired 5X Health System Regional President & CEO, I advise drawing on 30+ years of delivering turnarounds, transformative growth, and multi-billion-dollar impact through governance, operations, finance, risk mitigation, regulatory compliance and organic/M&A growth strategies. I have set strategy and provided governance in large for-profit, non-profit, and fully integrated health systems with $2B P&L and $3B+ revenues across TX, AZ, CA, ID, & OR at Trinity Health, Kaiser Permanente (KP), Ascension Health, Tenet Health, and HCA Healthcare Corp.An executive nurse turned COO and CEO, I provide Boards in highly regulated industries with insights gained through listening, compassion, strong operational healthcare background, and customer understanding – across both patient and provider perspectives. Thriving in complex situations, I guide on Board optimization, change management, business development/deployment, clinically integrated network development, M&A, tech-enabled solutions/telehealth, partnerships, workforce and consumer engagement. I serve as Board Director & Compensation & HR Committee member of Idaho Power/IDACORP (NYSE: IDA), a public utility with $5.52B market cap, and earlier on Audit Committee. My +20 years of healthcare board experience includes Board Finance Chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation and Carol Emmott Foundation Board Governance Committee. Earlier served on 3 Hospital Assoc. Boards,(TX, CA, & ID as Chairperson) and held Board roles for my local boards at Trinity Health, Ascension Health, HCA, and Tenet.As President & CEO of Trinity Health’s West Region, I led operations across 6 hospitals,+100 clinics, a Clinically Integrated Network in ID/OR, 2 health insurance plans, employed Medical Groups with +1,200 providers, 2 free-standing Emergency Departments and 13 Joint Ventures. At Kaiser, I oversaw the East Bay Market including the most comprehensive tertiary area with $2.6B revenue. In my leadership career of breaking barriers, I’ve been recognized as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare by Modern Health Care, Top 25 Women in Healthcare, one of the nation’s most influential 50 Clinical Executives, and earned Steven A. Millard Star Garnet Award. I am a Lifetime Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. A native of Colombia, I am fluent in Spanish. I’m a member of the Latino Corporate Director’s Association (LCDA) and the NACD.
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