Category: Private Citizen — Corporate Director Role: Independent Director, UnitedHealth Group Inc. (UNH) Board Tenure: 2023 – present Committee Memberships: Audit and Finance Committee; Health and Clinical Practice Policies Committee Profile Type: Board Member Accountability — Anchor B (Documented Organizational Leadership)

Basis for Inclusion: Charles Baker holds a documented governance role at UnitedHealth Group Inc., which made documented political donations to Trump-aligned entities while the corporation faced an FTC antitrust case regarding its proposed Change Healthcare acquisition. Baker’s prior role as CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care — a New England health insurance plan — and as Governor of Massachusetts gives him direct policy experience with the health insurance regulatory environment in which UnitedHealth operates. This profile documents the factual governance relationship, not the subject’s personal political views.

Subject Classification: Private Citizen / Corporate Director. Board membership is a matter of public record (SEC filings, proxy statements). This profile documents only the governance role and its connection to documented corporate political activity.

Biographical Overview

Charles D. “Charlie” Baker served as Governor of Massachusetts from January 2015 to January 2023, serving two terms as a moderate Republican in one of the most Democratic states in the country. Before becoming governor, he served as CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care from 2010 to 2014, a major New England non-profit health insurance plan. He also held senior roles in Massachusetts state government in the 1990s.

Since leaving office, Baker has served as President of the NCAA since March 2023. He joined the UnitedHealth board in 2023. His background leading a competing health insurer and his extensive experience with Massachusetts healthcare policy (the state that pioneered mandatory health insurance) gives him deep expertise in the regulatory and competitive context of UnitedHealth’s core managed care business.

He holds a B.A. from Harvard College and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Board Role and Governance Authority

• Company: UnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE: UNH)
• Board tenure: 2023 – present
• Committee assignments: Audit and Finance Committee; Health and Clinical Practice Policies Committee
• Day job: President, National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)

Parent Corporate Donor Profile

This profile is a governance-accountability companion to the UnitedHealth Group corporate donor profile, which documents the corporation’s political spending and regulatory relationships under the Trump administration.

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Sources

• UnitedHealth Group Inc. DEF 14A Proxy Statement, filed April 21, 2025; SEC EDGAR (CIK 731766)