Wayne deveydt wellpoint health

It’s been a long road for Wayne DeVeydt.

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Growing up on public assistance with his mother who worked as many as three jobs to make ends meet, DeVeydt was the first in his family to attend college. It’s the kind of background that teaches valuable lessons about how to handle a dollar.

Today, DeVeydt handles nearly 60 billion of them as executive vice president and chief financial officer of health insurance giant WellPoint Inc., a Fortune 100 company that outstripped the 2011 revenues of PepsiCo, Intel and Kraft Foods.

“I remind people that the way you manage a dollar is no different than the way you manage $60 billion,” DeVeydt says.

“It’s still one dollar at a time.”

DeVeydt grew up in south St. Louis, and his path to success was largel