Adam Boehler, a businessman and former government official, will be Trump's Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs, with the rank of ambassador. Boehler previously served as the first CEO of the United States Development Finance Corporation and had worked with the Trump administration to negotiate the Abraham Accords.
"He has negotiated with some of the toughest people in the World, including the Taliban, but Adam knows that NO ONE is tougher than the United States of America, at least when President Trump is its Leader. Adam will work tirelessly to bring our Great American Citizens HOME," Trump said.
Boehler was born in Albany, New York in 1979. Boehler's father is a physician. Boehler graduated magna cum laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2000.
He was a summer college roommate of Jared Kushner, with whom he would later work on a team coordinating tests for COVID-19.
Boehler started his career at Battery Ventures, a technology venture capital firm that focuses on investments in software and emerging technologies.
Boehler was also an Operating Partner at Francisco Partners, a global private equity firm based in San Francisco focusing on healthcare. Boehler founded and was Chairman of Avalon Health Solutions, a provider of laboratory benefit management services.
Previously, Boehler was the founder and chief executive officer of Accumen, a provider of laboratory management services to health systems. Prior to joining CMS, Boehler was founder and chief executive officer of Landmark Health, the largest provider of home-based medical care in the country. United Health Group purchased Landmark for $3.5 billion in 2021.
Boehler was appointed Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation at the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in April 2018. While at HHS, Boehler also served as Senior Advisor for Value-based Transformation to Secretary Alex Azar.
During his tenure at CMMI, Boehler launched 16 payment models designed to speed the transformation of US Health Care to value based payments instead of fee for service. He launched a series of models focused on empowering primary care physicians as well as transforming kidney care across the United States.
During the COVID crisis, Boehler led teams focused on expanding testing, sourcing critical PPE, and ensuring that there were sufficient ventilators for the United States population (and ultimately helping emerging countries in need). Boehler was a founding board member of Operation Warp Speed.
On May 14, 2020, the President of the United States signed an executive order delegating Defense Production Act authorities to Boehler, underwriting the production of various vaccines under consideration in advance of the Food and Drug Administration's approval to expand domestic vaccine supply.
On July 10, 2019, the President of the United States announced his intent to nominate Boehler for the position of chief executive officer of the newly formed U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, a government agency formed through the Better Utilization of Investments Leading to Development (BUILD) Act as a consolidation of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the Development Credit Authority of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) into one entity.
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