Edwin Crawford
Edwin "Mac" Crawford (born February 20, 1949) is an American businessman. He is the former Chairman of the Board and CEO of CVS Caremark and Charter Medical Corporation.[1]
Early life and education
Raised in High Springs, Florida, Crawford attended Auburn University from 1968 to 1971 and played fullback for the Auburn Tigers. He graduated in 1971 with a B.S. in Accounting.[1][2] He won Auburn's Walter Gilbert Award, which is given annually to a former student-athlete with 20 or more years of exceptional achievements, in 2003.[3][4]
Career
Crawford spent the first 19 years of his business career in the finance, industrial, and investment sectors before venturing into healthcare in 1990 when he was initially hired as Executive Vice President of Hospital Operations at Charter Medical. He helped pull Charter out of bankruptcy and saw it become the largest behavioral health services company in America and also managed its merger with Magellan Health Services.[1][5]
In 1997, Crawford became the Chair and CEO of MedPartners, which he transformed into Caremark Rx, a prescription benefits management and mail-order pharmaceutical company.[6] He was the catalyst of the merger between Caremark and CVS Corporation to form CVS Caremark, which became a $75-billion Fortune 20 company.[7] He stepped down from CVS Caremark in 2007 and formed the investment banking advisory firm CrawfordSpalding Group, which has partnered with Jana Partners, WL Ross & Co., and FleishmanHillard on investment projects.[1][5][8][9][10][11][12][13]
Crawford was named to the Board of Trustees of Washington and Lee University in 2010, where he and his wife established the Crawford Family Deanship of the Williams School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics.[14][15][16] In 2012, he was named as part of the three-person search committee that included Bo Jackson and Pat Sullivan to choose Auburn's next head football coach, when they decided on Gus Malzahn.[17] The following year, he was part of a six-person committee that conducted an evaluation of the Auburn Athletic Department.[18]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Mac Crawford: Early Life and Education, Career, FAQs". Investopedia. Retrieved 2025-10-15.
- ↑ "Mac Crawford - Football 1968". Auburn Tigers - Official Athletics Website. Retrieved 2025-10-15.
- ↑ "Garcia, Short and Carlin To Be Honored Saturday". 247Sports. Retrieved 2025-10-15.
- ↑ "Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management". auburn.qualtrics.com. Retrieved 2025-10-15.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Mac Crawford: Healthcare Visionary and Transformational Leader". SuperMoney. Retrieved 2025-10-15.
- ↑ "SCRUSHY RESIGNS CHAIRMAN POST AT PHYSICIAN MANAGEMENT FIRM". Chicago Tribune. 1998-10-31. Retrieved 2025-10-15.
- ↑ "CVS to Buy Caremark in All-Stock Deal (Published 2006)". 2006-11-01. Retrieved 2025-10-15.
- ↑ Martinez, Barbara (2006-05-10). "For Caremark's Chief Executive, Outsize Rewards - WSJ". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2025-10-15.
- ↑ Herbst-Bayliss, Svea (28 December 2021). "EXCLUSIVE Activist Jana Partners pushes Encompass Health on potential merger". Reuters.
- ↑ FleishmanHillard. "FleishmanHillard Appoints Turnaround Specialist and Former CVS Caremark Chairman Edwin 'Mac' Crawford to International Advisory Board". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved 2025-10-15.
- ↑ "Crawford, WL Ross launch joint venture". www.modernhealthcare.com. Retrieved 2025-10-15.
- ↑ Lawley, Erin (2010-07-14). "Former Caremark CEO starts turnaround firm". Nashville Post. Retrieved 2025-10-15.
- ↑ Inc, Team Health Holdings. "TeamHealth Announces Agreement With JANA Partners". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved 2025-10-15.
- ↑ "Mac Crawford of Nashville Named to Washington and Lee Board of Trustees". readme.readmedia.com. Retrieved 2025-10-15.
- ↑ "The Crawford Family Deanship of the Williams School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics : Washington and Lee University". my.wlu.edu. Retrieved 2025-10-15.
- ↑ HannaMay 9, Jeff; 2009 (2009-05-09). "W&L Receives $2.5 Million Endowment in Honor of Larry C. Peppers". The Columns. Retrieved 2025-10-15.
- ↑ Erickson, Joel A. (2012-11-25). "Jay Jacobs names Bo Jackson, Pat Sullivan and Mac Crawford to Auburn's search committee". al. Retrieved 2025-10-15.
- ↑ Erickson, Joel A. (2013-05-14). "Committee member Mac Crawford says Jay Jacobs knows how to improve Auburn athletics department". al. Retrieved 2025-10-15.
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