Erin McSweeney

Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer · UnitedHealth Group

Health CareEden Prairie, MN

Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer of UnitedHealth Group since March 2022, responsible for its enterprise people and culture strategy. She was previously chief of staff to the Office of the Chief Executive and Chief Human Resources Officer of Optum, after 11 years at EMC that ended as its Chief Human Resources Officer. She has been an independent director of Flex since 2020.

Last reviewed: Oct 1, 2026

Erin McSweeney

Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer UnitedHealth Group

Last Reviewed: October 1, 2026

Executive Summary

Erin McSweeney is UnitedHealth Group’s Chief People Officer, responsible for the company’s enterprise people and culture strategy. She has held the role since March 2022, after a year as chief of staff to the company’s Office of the Chief Executive and four years as chief human resources officer of Optum. She came to UnitedHealth from EMC, where she spent eleven years and rose to chief human resources officer. She has more than 30 years in human capital management and has sat on the board of Flex since 2020.

Career Highlights

  • Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer of UnitedHealth Group since March 2022.
  • Executive Vice President, Chief of Staff for the CEO from February 2021 to February 2022.
  • Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer of Optum from January 2017 to February 2021.
  • Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer of EMC from 2015 to 2016, after earlier senior HR roles there from 2009.
  • Independent director of Flex Ltd. since 2020.

Professional Journey

McSweeney has held several chief human resources officer roles across industries. She spent eleven years at EMC, an international technology company, now Dell EMC. There she was Chief Human Resources Officer and Vice President, Virtual Computing Environment from 2009 to 2012, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Products and Marketing from 2013 to 2015, and Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer from 2015 to 2016.

In January 2017 she joined UnitedHealth Group as Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer of Optum, its health services business, which Flex’s proxy describes as having 180,000 employees worldwide. In February 2021 she became chief of staff to the Office of the Chief Executive, and in March 2022 Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer of UnitedHealth Group.

In 2020 she joined the board of Flex Ltd., where she sits on the Compensation and People committee. Flex shareholders re-elected her in August 2026.

Education

No education record was found in any company or SEC source.