Experience

A career built across the healthcare ecosystem.

Payers. Providers. Digital health. Corporate law. Enterprise leadership. Jerry brings the range to see around corners—and the builder’s instinct to create what comes next.

Jerry Johnson standing at the head of a boardroom table

Professional progression

From regulated operations to enterprise leadership.

2020 — Present

Teladoc Health

Vice President, Legal & Chief Privacy Officer

Leading at the convergence of care, technology, data, and trust.

Jerry advises a global virtual-care business across privacy, regulatory strategy, enterprise risk, product innovation, data governance, and responsible AI. After joining as Director, Corporate Counsel, he advanced through increasingly senior leadership roles and built legal systems designed to help the business move with both speed and rigor.

Digital health · Provider operations · Enterprise legal leadership

2015 — 2020

UnitedHealthcare

Chief Compliance & Privacy Officer, Michigan Health Plan · Senior Associate

Operating inside one of healthcare’s most complex environments.

At a national health insurer, Jerry developed an operator’s understanding of regulated healthcare—leading compliance and privacy for the Michigan plan and advising the business on the practical realities of serving members, working with providers, and managing regulatory obligations at scale.

National payer · Health-plan operations · Compliance leadership

2014 — 2015

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

Regulatory Associate

Building a foundation in health-insurance regulation.

Jerry began his in-house healthcare career at Michigan’s largest health insurer, working at the point where regulation, plan operations, member needs, and institutional decision-making meet.

Regional payer · Regulatory affairs · Healthcare law

2012

Varnum LLP

Summer Associate · Corporate Law

Learning to see the enterprise through a corporate-law lens.

His law-firm training established the transactional and commercial foundation that still informs how he approaches enterprise counsel: understand the objective, translate complexity, and help the client reach a durable decision.

Corporate law · Commercial judgment · Client service

Jerry Johnson seated in a modern Detroit interior

Healthcare range

Corporate counselRegional insurerNational health planVirtual careAI transformationCorporate counselRegional insurerNational health planVirtual careAI transformation

The parallel thread

Organizer.
Entrepreneur.
Builder.

2008

Obama for America

Served in campaign management during Barack Obama’s historic 2008 presidential campaign—organizing people and operations around a shared mission before entering the legal profession.

2012

Detroit Rails

Co-founded a web-development bootcamp during the emergence of Detroit’s modern technology ecosystem, helping people build skills for a growing digital economy.

Ongoing

Designer & web builder

Continues to design and build for the web, bringing an entrepreneur’s instinct, technical fluency, and a designer’s eye to legal and business leadership.

Credentials

EducationUniversity of Michigan

A.B., Philosophy

Legal educationMichigan State University College of Law

Juris Doctor

AdmissionsMinnesota · District of Columbia

Licensed attorney

RecognitionThomson Reuters Changemaker

Legal leadership through AI

The throughline

Build trust.
Enable progress.
Lead what’s next.

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