Tim Noel is the new UnitedHealthcare CEO following the Dec. 4 targeted killing of its former top executive, Brian Thompson, in Manhattan.

UnitedHealthcare named a company veteran, Tim Noel, as its CEO seven weeks after former CEO Brian Thompson was killed in New York. Noel joined the company in 2007 and was most recently the head of its Medicare and retirement unit,

UnitedHealth Group said veteran internal executive Tim Noel will succeed the late Brian Thompson as CEO of UnitedHealthcare, the nation’s largest health insurance company.