Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> September 14, 2001

Thomas Byrd – Trigon Healthcare Inc (tgh)

THOMAS R. BYRD, Senior Vice President and CFO of Trigon Healthcare, Inc., joined the company in April 1991 as Director of Financial Analysis. He was promoted to Vice President and Controller in 1992. He served as Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis from January 1996 until appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in November 1997. Before joining the company, Mr. Byrd was Senior Manager with the public accounting firm KPMG LLP. He is member of the Financial Executives Institute; Virginia Tech Accounting Advisory Board; Executive Board of the Robert E. Lee Council, Boy Scouts of America; Trigon representative: Virginia Life, Accident and Sickness Insurance Guaranty Association. Mr. Byrd received a BS, summa cum laude, from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Profile
TWST: Would you bring us up-to-date with what's gone on at Trigon

Healthcare over the last six to eight months that investors should focus

on?

Mr. Byrd: In terms of a broad basis, Trigon has