Lois Elaine Quam (born 1961) is an American healthcare executive who has been President and CEO of Blue Shield of California since January 2025.
Working at the company during a period of rapid growth, Quam secured a partnership between Ovations and the AARP.
As a result of her work in Minnesota, she served as a senior advisor to the Task Force on National Health Care Reform from 1993 to 1994 under then-first lady Hillary Clinton.
[11] She became President of Blue Shield of California in August 2024, and became CEO of the company in January 2025 following corporate restructuring.
[15][16][17] Quam married Minnesota state legislator Matt Entenza in 1984; they met as students at Macalester College.
[18] They divorced, and she married Reuters foreign policy correspondent Arshad Mohammed in a Muslim ceremony in Washington, D.C. in 2014.