Highmark Health. James joined Highmark in 2015 as supplier diversity director and developed the program into one of the top award-winning supplier diversity programs in the Americas, officials said. James will work with Margaret Larkins-Pettigrew, M.D., who serves as Allegheny Health Network’s (AHN's) chief clinical diversity, equity and inclusion officer. James will implement and advise upon Highmark Health’s enterprisewide diversity, equity and inclusion strategy, while Larkins-Pettigrew will focus her efforts across AHN to shape an inclusive workplace culture, officials said. James previously served as CEO of a diversity and inclusion consulting firm and in an advisory role with the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. As a practicing lawyer for more than 20 years, he spent several years facilitating historically black colleges and universities financings nationally for capital projects through a U.S. Department of Education program.