Wright Lassiter III

Since 2005, Wright Lassiter III has served as CEO for Alameda County Medical Center in Oakland, Calif. Lassiter, 48, previously worked for three years as senior vice president of operations at JPS Health Network, a government-run health network that also includes a 532-bed hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. Alameda County is a publicly funded, six-facility healthcare system, and Lassiter is credited with bringing stability to the system, which had 10 CEOs in almost a decade before his arrival.