Board Chairman

Michael C. Riordan, President and Chief Executive Officer, joined Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center (GHS) in 2006. Riordan is responsible for leading the 1,268-bed system, one of the largest not-for-profit healthcare providers in the Southeast with more than 10,000 employees and operating revenues of approximately $1.4 billion. In 2010, GHS provided $276.5 million in quantifiable benefits to its surrounding communities.

Prior to joining GHS, he served as president, chief executive officer and trustee of the University of Chicago Hospitals and Health System and as chief operating officer, and later, senior associate hospital administrator of Emory University Hospital and Crawford Long Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. He also served three years in the United States Marine Corps as a lieutenant.

Riordan currently serves as an assembly representative for the Association of American Medical Colleges and on the administrative board of the Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems. He is a member of several boards, including the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce, Greater Greenville Chamber of Commerce, Health Sciences South Carolina and the Urban League of the Upstate, Inc.

Riordan earned a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts/English and a master’s degree in education/psychology from Columbia University in New York, as well as a master’s degree in health systems from the Georgia Institute of Technology.