Operating Partners
Jim Foreman
Jim is an Operating Partner to Lightyear Fund V, L.P. and its parallel investment vehicles.
He brings extensive leadership and knowledge of the healthcare industry with a focus on insurance, benefits, and payments related to Fund V’s investment themes, including the consumerization of healthcare payments and insurance and the digitization of financial products and services.
Jim has more than 30 years of experience as a senior executive with the legacy companies of Willis Towers Watson where he served as a member of the Executive Committee, leader of the Americas, and a past Board member. He formed and led Exchange Solutions which acquired Extend Health, the largest private Medicare exchange in the United States at the time.
Jim also served as an Executive Vice President of National Accounts, Global Benefits, Group Insurance and Government, Labor and Medicaid for Aetna. He was also a member of the Executive Committee.
He serves as Chairman of HPOne, a Lightyear Fund IV portfolio company, and currently sits on the Board of Directors of Alegeus (a former portfolio company of Lightyear Fund III, L.P.), ConsumerMedical, and Centivo. He has also served on numerous philanthropic boards, including for the Joffrey Ballet and the Employee Benefits Research Institute.
Jim holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in Business-Economics and studied International Business at the University of Melbourne.
Operating Partners (i) are not exclusive and may provide similar services to other third parties, including portfolio companies of investment funds affiliated with Lightyear and (ii) are not employees or affiliates of Lightyear or its affiliates but are independent contractors. The composition of the network of Operating Partners is subject to change.