Americans for the Arts

Floyd W. Green, III recently retired from Aetna, a CVS Health company, as Vice President of Community Affairs. Since 2004, his teams developed grass roots community-based strategies to assist in new business development, customer retention and strategic partnerships. His organizations managed the implementation of Aetna’s urban marketing strategies designed to enhance alternative distribution channels across all market segments, Aetna’s multilingual capabilities in voice, data and print and the activation of community-based programs that addressed social determinants of health. During his illustrious 17-year tenure at Aetna, Floyd, a longtime leader and champion of the arts, diversity and inclusion across the nation, his teams developed a reputation for strengthening Aetna’s brand in countless communities across the country. He also spends time advocating nationally the importance of STEAM vs STEM. (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Math).

In August 2022, Floyd was appointed by the state of Connecticut to the Connecticut Arts Foundation and the Connecticut Arts Council. In January 2013, Floyd was appointed to the national board of the Americans for the Arts and currently serves as the chair of their national Arts Education Committee. In addition, he serves on the boards of the Hartford Public Library, Board of Ambassadors for the Bushnell Performing Arts Center, Xavier University’s Corporate Advisory Board and Howard University’s School of Communications Board of Visitors. Previously, he served on the boards of Theater Forward, The Conference of Churches (The 224), Pivot Magazine’s Board of Advisors, the Greater Hartford Urban League, Hartford’s Performs, Hartford Stage and the Connecticut Forum, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) National Partnership Board for HIV/AIDS and Uptown Professional Board of Advisors. In 2012, he was appointed Commissioner by Mayor Pedro E. Segarra, Mayor of Hartford to the Capital Region Development Authority.

He is a train actor and a member of Actor’s Equity Association. He is also a member of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC), the National Association of Health Services Executives (NAHSE), lifetime members of the National Black MBA’s and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated.

Floyd is the recipient of many professional and civic awards including, Black Doctors.org and Johns Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions 45 most influential Blacks in Healthcare, The National Merit Award during the National Action Network’s Martin Luther King Breakfast and the Martin Luther King National Service Award by the Institute for the Advancement of Multicultural and Minority Medicine (IAMMM) both in Washington, DC. He is a recipient of Uptown Professional magazine’s top 100 executives in corporate America and Savoy Magazine's 100 most influential Black executives in corporate America. STEM connector’s 100 Diverse Corporate Leaders in STEM for STEAM and the Catalyst Award for Transformational Leadership by The Conference of Churches (The 224). the CT Governor’s Patron of the Arts award. Floyd received the National Council of Community and Justice’s (NCCJ) Human Relations award, the 2022 Bushnell’s Yandow Award for Arts Education and the OnCon Icon 2020, 2021 and 2022 Top Marketer Award recognizing the top marketers in the world.

Floyd graduated with high honors from Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania with a B.S. degree in History/Public Affairs. He received a MBA in Marketing/Strategy from Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management, Malibu, California. Currently, a doctoral student at the University of Hartford focusing on Arts Education. Born in Newport News, Virginia, Floyd now resides in Hartford, Connecticut.