Howard Lapsley, trustee

Howard Lapsley is a partner in Oliver Wyman’s Health and Life Sciences Practice, based in Boston. Oliver Wyman is a $2B global management consultancy and a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan. Lapsley co-leads Oliver Wyman’s retail health and distribution strategy teams, as well as focusing on consumer-centric business design, development of value-based arrangements with payers and providers, marketing, new product development, and ancillary benefits. Lapsley is a frequent speaker at industry forums and has presented to America’s Health Insurance Plans, the National Institute for Health Care Management, Alliance of Community Health Plans, the Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association, and the National Institute for Healthcare Leadership, among others. 

Lapsley has been at Oliver Wyman since graduating from business school in 1995. Before Oliver Wyman, he was an account supervisor at Grey Advertising in New York City, focusing on consumer-packaged goods. Lapsley holds a BA in history from Harvard University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He considers himself fortunate to have been a summer resident of Northeast Harbor, on Mount Desert Island, his entire life and is an active sailor and mountain bike rider. He is married to Karen and has three boys: Tim, Robert, and James.