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Wayne DeVeydt
WellPoint Inc.
Executive vice president and CFO
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Age: 41
Family: wife Michele Jackson; daughters Kaitlyn, 15, Emma, 10, and Gabby, 8; sons Kingston and Thaxton, 7 months
Hometown: St. Louis
Education: bachelor's in accounting from the University of Missouri; CPA
Civic Involvement: serves on boards of YMCA of Greater Indianapolis and Cancer Support Community; advisory board member of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis; active in The Fatherless Foundation, which assists abandoned and orphaned children around the world
Hobbies: traveling, spending time in nature, leading mission trips overseas
Keeping cool in a crisis is what has allowed WellPoint to avoid hemorrhaging during the recession, said Wayne DeVeydt, executive vice president and CFO. WellPoint is one of the few companies outperforming the Standard & Poor's 500 index this year.
"When you have significant economic downturns, generally the thing that sets in is panic," DeVeydt said. "I have a CEO and a board that does not panic."
DeVeydt has kept his head as well. In the midst of the worst economic crisis in generations, he has helped the nation's largest publicly traded health insurer log three straight years of record earnings per share. EPS grew 25 percent between...