Gayle Capozzalo, Executive Director of The Collaborative

Gayle Capozzalo is executive director of The Collaborative, an initiative of The Carol Emmott Foundation, which is focused on facilitating systemic change in organizations to create organizational cultures of greater inclusion. She is also president/CEO of JGF Strategies LLC, providing strategy guidance to healthcare organizations. She retired in July 2018 as the executive vice president/chief strategy officer of Yale New Haven Health System. She joined the System in 1997 and was primarily responsible for system strategy development and execution, marketing, community and government relations, innovation, business development, and mergers and acquisitions. Ms. Capozzalo received her Master of Science degree in public health from the University of Missouri–Columbia and completed two years of post-master’s degree work in healthcare marketing and organizational development at St. Louis University. She has more than 40 years of experience in system strategy, integration, development and management in the healthcare industry. Ms. Capozzalo is a past chairman of the ACHE Board of Governors. She received the ACHE Gold Medal Award for outstanding leadership. Currently, Ms. Capozzalo serves on the board of Universal Health Realty Income Trust as a member of its audit, nominating/governance committees and chair of its compensation committee. She also serves on the board of .406 Venture Healthcare Executive Council in Boston and until its merger in 2024 with Yale New Haven Health, was the senior strategy adviser to PhysicianOne Urgent Care, the largest urgent care service in Connecticut.

Ms. Capozzalo is active in her community and the healthcare industry. She is immediate past chair of Planned Parenthood of Southern New England and serves on its finance and audit, investment, strategy, governance and executive committees. She is also vice chair of the C4 Board of Planned Parenthood Greater New York and serves as board chair of a Clinically Integrated Network of 19 Planned Parenthood affiliates. Ms. Capozzalo is board certified in healthcare management as an ACHE Fellow.