Melissa Skottegaard

Melissa Skottegaard serves as Chief Marketing and Communications Officer for The Cigna Group^® and is a member of the Enterprise Leadership Team (ELT).

In her role, Melissa ensures a unified and compelling narrative across all internal and external stakeholders, advancing strategy and accelerating business growth for The Cigna Group. Melissa is responsible for business marketing, CEO communications, corporate reputation, thought leadership, and brand, media relations, business, executive, and employee communications, and social media. Melissa also leads the company’s Community Programs efforts and serves as the chair of The Cigna Group Foundation.

Throughout her tenure at The Cigna Group, Melissa has led the communications strategy for several complex mergers and acquisitions and divestitures, as well as the company’s communications response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its “Commitments to Better”—a key milestone in evolving our customer—and patient-centric focus.

Melissa has more than 25 years of communications and marketing leadership experience. Prior to joining The Cigna Group in 2018, she was Vice President, Marketing and Communications at TIAA where she also served as the Chief of Staff for the function. Prior to TIAA, Melissa held senior marketing and communication roles at GE and Genworth Financial. She served as Genworth’s first Vice President of Public Affairs following the company’s IPO from GE.

Melissa holds a master’s degree in Communications from the University of Denver, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado.