Rosemarie B. Greco

Rosemarie B. Greco

In his first official action as Governor, Edward G. Rendell signed an Executive Order establishing the new cabinet level Office of Health Care Reform and the Governor's Health Care Reform Cabinet. On January 21, 2003, Rosemarie B. Greco was sworn in as its Director.

The Office of Health Care Reform is charged with coordinating the Commonwealth's Health Care Reform Agenda. Members of the Governor's Health Care Reform Cabinet report to the Director on accountabilities related to the Commonwealth's Health Care Reform Agenda. The Cabinet includes: Secretaries of Health, Public Welfare, Aging and Administration; the Commissioners of Insurance and Corrections; the Adjutant General; and the Director of the Governor's Policy Office.

Prior to this appointment as Director of the Office of Health Care Reform, Ms. Greco was Founding Principal of GRECOventures Ltd., where she provided confidential one-on-one consulting for Chief Executive Officers; consulted on strategic planning and organizational infrastructure alignment for businesses; and made equity investments in small start-up companies.

Before beginning GRECOventures, Ltd., Ms. Greco was the Chief Executive Officer and President of CoreStates Bank, N.A. and President of CoreStates Financial Corp., its parent company. During her tenure, the forty-five billion dollar institution was ranked as one of America's most profitable and efficient banks. The Bank was also heralded for its corporate philanthropy, service quality, and a culture of employee empowerment and diversity.

Before joining CoreStates in March 1991, Ms. Greco was President and Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity Bank and Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Retail Officer and a director of First Fidelity Bancorporation.

Ms. Greco has served the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a member of the Philadelphia Special Judiciary Nominating Panel, the Advisory Commission for the Department of Banking, as a member of Pennsylvania 2000, a state-wide coalition for education reform, and as a member of the Foundation for a Drug Free Pennsylvania.

She has served the City of Philadelphia as Chair of the first Women's Commission, as a member of the City Planning Commission, as Chair of a special task force which drew the charter for Mayor Rendell's Office for Management, Productivity and Planning, and as a member of the Executive Committee of the founding Board of Philadelphia's Special Service District.

For four years, Ms. Greco served as a member of the Board of Education for the School District of Philadelphia. She founded and chaired the School-to-Career Leadership Council, personally recruiting and engaging Chief Executive Officer Colleagues of the City's major corporations to assume leadership responsibility for the Philadelphia School District's 19 Resource Boards.

Ms. Greco is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of St. Joseph's University and holds an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Temple University, an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Cabrini College, an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Albright College, and an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Thomas Jefferson University.