Trevor Fetter

Trevor Fetter is a Senior Lecturer and the Henry B. Arthur Fellow at Harvard Business School, where he has been on the faculty since 2019. He teaches two MBA required courses: Financial Reporting and Control and Leadership and Corporate Accountability. He has also taught a Short Intensive Program for MBA students called The Life and Role of the CEO and is the faculty chair of a section of MBA students and co-chair of the Bridges program for second-year MBA students.

After graduating from HBS in 1986, Trevor worked in investment banking for two years before joining a client, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, ultimately becoming CFO. In 1995 he joined Tenet Healthcare Corporation, where he served as CFO through the end of 1999. He then founded and served as Chairman and CEO of Broadlane, a Tenet spin-off that was a leader in improving the performance of healthcare providers in the supply chain using emerging e-commerce technology. Broadlane was named one of Inc. magazine's 500 fastest growing private companies in multiple years.

Trevor returned to Tenet in late 2002 and was named CEO in 2003. The company grew to $20 billion in revenues (Fortune ~#130) and steadily increased EBITDA and margins. With 130,000 people, Tenet was one of the ~50 largest employers in the U.S. and had operations in more than 40 states and the United Kingdom. He took the company in a new direction, launching adjacent businesses in revenue cycle management and ambulatory surgery. Those businesses, which operate as Conifer Health Solutions and United Surgical Partners International, are now multi-billion-dollar enterprises and leaders in their respective fields. Trevor retired as Chairman and CEO of Tenet in late 2017.

Trevor is an active corporate director and investor. In 2025 he was named by the Wall St. Journal as one of the 250 top corporate board directors. He serves as lead independent director of The Hartford Insurance Group, a diversified Fortune 150 financial services company (NYSE: HIG) and a director of Omada Health (NASDAQ: OMDA). He has also served as chair and is a director of the private healthcare technology company Trimedx and is an independent director of the Santa Catalina Island Company. He is a member of the advisory board of TowerBrook Capital Partners and has served on several private company boards in addition to investing in and advising early-stage companies seeking to transform important elements of the healthcare system. Trevor’s non-profit activities include the boards of the Catalina Island Conservancy, the Board of Fellows of Stanford Medicine, and the advisory council of the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER). He has also served on the Smithsonian National Board and the Board of Dean's Advisors at Harvard Business School.

Trevor received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Stanford University in 1982 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1986.  He is married to his Stanford classmate, Melissa Fetter, a community volunteer and proprietor of Beacon Hill Books and Café in Boston. Together they were honored with the 2017 Henry Cohn Humanitarian Award presented by the Anti-Defamation League.