Diane Body – Managing Director

Diane Body is a Managing Director with over 30 years of broad-based IT and operations leadership. She brings technical and strategic experience in the commercial software, provider, and healthcare insurance markets. Diane is adept at assessing business needs, defining product requirements, leading application development, implementations, and managing quality assurance. 

Prior to joining AArete, Diane was the Regional Vice President of IT at Centene focusing on M&A, new business development and implementation, similar state migrations, finance, QA, and business engagement management. She also worked for eight years at Elevance (formally Anthem) in information technology leadership roles and eight years at The TriZetto Group (Cognizant) with roles focusing on developing innovative consumer products and software implementations. Prior to that, she was a COO of an EDI company and worked in a variety of hospital systems in the finance and IT divisions. 

Diane has been recognized by the Women of Innovation Connecticut Technology Council for Small Business Innovation and Leadership. She has a Bachelor of Science in MIS and Health Systems Managements from the University of Connecticut as well as an MBA from the University of Hartford.