Sally Wellborn

Sally currently advises employers, entrepreneurs, and others in the health care and employee benefits arenas, and works extensively as the Executive Advisor to the Employer Health Innovation Roundtable (EHIR).  With more than 30 years of experience, Sally has a deep perspective of the health care industry, an in-depth knowledge of retirement plans and significant experience in managing total rewards programs.  Her area of expertise is in payer/employer solutions which result in improved health care quality, lower cost and less inappropriate care. 

Prior to her current activities, she was most recently the Senior Vice President of Global Benefits for Walmart Stores, Inc. where she was responsible for overseeing the global benefits programs for Walmart’s more than 2.2 million associates and their families in twenty-eight countries.   

Prior to joining Walmart, she was senior vice president, Corporate Benefits for Wells Fargo & Company.  Before that, her career includes consulting with large employers in all areas of benefits strategy and health care optimization when she was with HCIA, Inc. and William M. Mercer, Inc. She also worked at Aetna as a relationship manager and at Union Bank as the Vice President of Benefits.

Sally currently serves on the Board of Directors of Truveris, Inc., Vivante Health, and The Leapfrog Group.  She also serves as a Board Advisor for the Penn Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics.  She previously served as the Chair of the Board of Directors for the ERISA Industry Committee and on the boards of the National Business Group on Health and the Pacific Business Group on Health as well as the Guiding Committee of the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network which was launched by HHS.