# Kristen Prestano

> Kristen Prestano is the Chief Marketing Officer of Oscar Health, the New York-based technology-driven health insurer. She rose from Chief Communications Officer to CMO, bringing a communications-first instinct to a category most people avoid thinking about. Before Oscar she ran communications for Evernorth, the $112 billion health-services arm of The Cigna Group, and earlier steered messaging through the $67 billion Cigna-Express Scripts merger. A Fairfield University communications graduate who cut her teeth at financial-communications firm Prosek Partners, she now shapes how a company of 2,400 talks to millions of members about coverage, care, and cost.

- **Role:** Chief Marketing Officer at Oscar Health
- **Organizations:** Oscar Health, Evernorth Health Services, The Cigna Group, Prosek Partners
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BA, Communication, Fairfield University
- **Known for:** Promoted from Chief Communications Officer to Chief Marketing Officer at publicly traded Oscar Health, Led communications for Evernorth Health Services, a company reporting roughly $112 billion in scale within The Cigna Group, Helped steer communications through the $67 billion Cigna-Express Scripts merger and its integration

## Career timeline

- **Early career** — Associate Vice President at Prosek Partners, a New York financial and professional-services communications firm
- **—** — Senior Director, Business and Executive Communications at Cigna; helped lead communications for the $67 billion Cigna-Express Scripts merger and integration
- **—** — Managing Director and Head of Communications for Evernorth Health Services, the $112 billion health-services arm of The Cigna Group
- **2023** — Joined Oscar Health as Chief Communications Officer, overseeing corporate, internal, external and business communications plus brand, design and creative
- **2026** — Promoted to SVP and Chief Marketing Officer of Oscar Health

## Achievements

- Promoted from Chief Communications Officer to Chief Marketing Officer at publicly traded Oscar Health
- Led communications for Evernorth Health Services, a company reporting roughly $112 billion in scale within The Cigna Group
- Helped steer communications through the $67 billion Cigna-Express Scripts merger and its integration
- Built and led brand, design, creative and communications functions across Oscar's family of companies

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Promoted to SVP and Chief Marketing Officer at Oscar Health, alongside the promotion of Louis DeStefano to Chief Growth Officer.

## Links

- Website: https://www.hioscar.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kprestano/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/oscarhealth
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OscarHealth

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Last updated: 2026-08-14