Joseph P. Kennedy II – Chairman
Joseph P. Kennedy II, Chairman of CitizensHealth, serves as President and Chairman of Citizens Energy Corporation, which he founded during the oil-price shocks of the late 1970s to provide low-cost home heating oil to low-income and elderly households struggling to keep up with rising fuel costs. Before leaving Citizens Energy in 1986 to serve 12 years in the U.S. Congress as the 8th District Representative from Massachusetts, Mr. Kennedy built the company into a leading innovator in the energy industry, using dividends from for-profit ventures in oil trading, electricity trading, natural gas marketing, and conservation services to underwrite energy costs to needy families around the country.In the mid-1980s, he also launched Citizens Medical, the nation's largest marketer of mail-order prescription drugs, which saved consumers 40% off the costs of conventional medication delivery.

During his six terms on Capitol Hill, Mr. Kennedy devised creative approaches to address social needs, many of them based on using the power of the private marketplace to create home-ownership opportunities for low- and moderate-income families. Mr. Kennedy's initiatives to toughen fair lending laws, employ tax credits to stimulate investments in affordable housing, and overhaul public housing have helped raise U.S. homeownership rates to record levels in neighborhoods across the country, including those that had suffered decades of neglect. Since returning to Citizens Energy in 1998, Mr. Kennedy has expanded the company's delivery of low-cost heating oil to households in need and started CitizensHealth to create access to affordable healthcare products and services for the uninsured or underinsured.