Phyllis Yale currently serves on the boards of Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY), 
DaVita Healthcare (NYSE: DVA), Aledade, and Montai (a Flagship Pioneering 
company). Previously she chaired the boards of Kindred Healthcare, Inc (NYSE: 
KND) and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, and served on the boards of 
privately-held National Surgical Hospitals and Value Options, Inc., as well as 
NeighborCare (NASDAQ), and Pediatric Services of America (NASDAQ). She 
has extensive experience on Compensation, Governance, Compliance, and 
Finance Committees, and has been involved in several major transactions.

She is engaged with several start-ups through their advisory boards, including 
HeroHealth (tech enabled service for medication management) and Tomorrow 
Health (tech enabled service for home care) She serves on the Advisory Board for the HBS Healthcare Initiative, and the Executive Council of the Health Policy 
Management Department at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. 
Previously she led an employer coalition to address health care costs in 
Massachusetts.

She is also on the board of The Trustees of Reservations, the largest and oldest 
conservation organization in Massachusetts.

Phyllis Yale is an Advisory Partner in Bain & Company’s Boston office. She 
joined the firm in 1982 and was elected to the partnership in 1987. Ms. Yale has 
been a leader in building Bain’s health care practice for more than 35 years. Over 
her career she has worked with health care payers and with providers across the 
continuum of care, and she frequently advises the world’s leading private equity 
firms on their investments in the health care sector.

She held a number of leadership roles at Bain, including serving on the firm’s 
Management Board, chairing the worldwide Compensation and Promotion 
Committee, and chairing the Nominating Committee. She ran Bain’s Boston 
office, the largest in the Bain system, as well as the entire East Coast. She now 
works part-time for Bain & Company, and devotes all of her Bain time to client 
work.

Ms. Yale was awarded a Lifetime Achievement award by Consulting Magazine, 
and was named by Working Mother magazine as one of the top 25 working 
mothers, and in 2023 was a recipient of NACD New England’s Director of the 
Year Award for Leadership in Governance. She earned an AB from Harvard in 
Economics, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She has published 
articles in the Harvard Business Review and in Vivo, among other publications, 
and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, including several times at The 
World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos.

She earned an MBA from Harvard Business School with honors and is a graduate
Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 
Economics magna cum laude.