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Carl S. Armato

Carl S. Armato MBA, BS

Healthcare Management
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

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Carl S. Armato is the president and chief executive officer for Novant Health. Since joining Novant Health in 1998 as the vice president of finance and operations for the physician divisions in both Charlotte and Winston-Salem, Armato has also served as senior vice president of materials management and logistics for Novant Health. In 2003, Presbyterian Healthcare appointed Armato as a chief operating officer and then promoted him to a president and chief executive officer in January 2004. In 2008, the health system promoted him to the president of Novant Health markets and in 2011 as a chief operating officer. The board of trustees appointed him to his current position in January 2012.

Prior to joining Novant Health, Armato was vice president of operations for First Care Physicians and director of finance for the General Health System in Baton Rouge, LA. He was also a senior tax/audit consultant for Ernst & Young in the Baton Rouge office. Armato holds a Bachelor of Business Administration - Accounting from the University of Southwestern Louisiana and a Master of Business Administration from the Norwich University of Vermont. He is a certified public accountant licensed in Louisiana and North Carolina. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the North Carolina -Society of Certified Public Accountants, the State Board of CPAs of Louisiana and the Healthcare Financial Management Association.

Armato currently serves as a member of the VHA Board of Directors, the VHA Audit and Finance Committee, on the executive committee of the North Carolina Chamber of Commerce, and recently joined the American Hospital Association Governing Council. He is actively involved in a number of community programs including the American Heart Association and has served in a variety of roles with the Knights of Columbus, Mecklenburg Citizens for Public Education and the Friends of Scouting in the past. In 2015, Armato was recognized as one of the Triad Business Journal’s Most Influential People in the Triad.
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