Sue Kozik joined Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana in August 2018 as senior vice president and chief information officer.

In her role, Kozik leads the IT organization and also has enterprisewide accountability for the Project Management Office and cybersecurity services. With each of these areas, she enables Blue Cross to maintain its leadership position in a constantly changing and intensely competitive health care marketplace.

Kozik is an innovative business leader and CIO with a proven track record of delivering results in highly regulated and competitive industries. She came to Blue Cross from Seattle-based Group Health, a $4 billion nonprofit integrated health care delivery system which was sold to Kaiser Permanente. Prior to Group Health, she held executive positions at Independence Blue Cross, TIAA CREF, Lucent Technologies and CIGNA. For a number of her CIO roles, Kozik was the first leader in the company to hold that executive position, bringing technology to the  conversation and to the board level.

She has been honored by the IT industry with many prestigious awards, including the CIO 100 Award and the HP Innovation Award, and by the Washington Diversity Council as one of their “Most Powerful  and Influential Women.” She was also profiled in Dan Roberts and Brian Watson’s 2016 book Confessions of a Successful CIO—the Conversation Continues. In 2020, Kozik was recognized by the National Diversity Council as one of the nation’s Top 50 CIOs.

Kozik graduated from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and served as a member of the college’s board of trustees for 15 years. Since 2012, Kozik has been a member of the board of directors at Tech Impact, a national nonprofit focused on workforce development and technology services. Sue also works with a number of technology startups and advisory boards.