Mark Peterson

Mark is Chief Executive Officer at Nystrom & Associates, leading the organization as it grows both regionally and nationally. He is known as a visionary leader who understands the importance of a mission-driven culture and a relentless focus on providing exceptional patient service and quality of care.

Mark’s professional experience includes over 30 years in the health care industry, with the past 20 in behavioral health as a founding partner in Genoa Healthcare. He retired as the CEO of Genoa in 2020, and has served as Nystrom’s Chairman of the Board since then.

Genoa partners with mental health and substance use providers across the country to provide behavioral health pharmacy and telepschiatry services. Nystrom and Genoa have had a long-standing relationship to provide care for the people they mutually serve.

Mark has also held leadership positions at Healthnexis, EMBION, Ingenix (Optum), Chronimed, and PCS (Caremark). He began his career as a pharmacist at United and Children’s Hospital.

Mark did Pre-pharmacy at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul and earned his Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

Mark is married and has four grown children. Along with spending time with family and friends, he enjoys the outdoors, hunting, fishing, and traveling.