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

UnitedHealthcare named 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,

Last month’s assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson sparked a new wave of anxiety for corporate leaders, prompting many executives to think twice about their safety and reevaluate their existing security protocols.