John Wallis Rowe

John Wallis (Jack) Rowe is an American businessman and academic physician, who served as Chairman and CEO of Aetna Inc., a large health insurance company based in Connecticut, titles he retired from in February 2006.

John Rowe is currently the Julius B Richmond Professor at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management. He has also served as professor at Harvard Medical School, and has authored more than 200 scientific publications, mostly on the aging process. Rowe was previously Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the University of Connecticut.

Prior to Columbia, John Rowe was the CEO and executive chairman of the health insurance company Aetna from 2000 to 2006. During his tenure he transformed Aetna into a large, profitable company. In 2005 his compensation was $22.2 million.

Prior to Aetna Dr. Rowe was President and Chief Executive Officer of Mount Sinai NY Health from 1998 to 2000. Prior to that he was President of The Mount Sinai Hospital and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City from 1988 to 1998.

Earlier in his career, Dr. Rowe was a professor of medicine and founding director of the Division on Aging at the Harvard Medical School and Chief of Gerontology at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital.

In 2006, the Wealth Transfer Group sued John W. Rowe for infringement of a tax patent. The patent was U.S. Patent 6,567,790, entitled "Establishing and managing grantor retained annuity trusts funded by nonqualified stock options". (i.e. SOGRAT) This case has been settled for undisclosed terms.

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