Rebecca Pittillo serves as executive director of the Blue & You Foundation for a Healthier Arkansas. The Foundation awards approximately $4 million in grants annually to Arkansas nonprofit and governmental organizations and programs that steer change in the areas of behavioral health, maternal/pediatric health and the social determinants of health.
Since joining Arkansas Blue Cross in 2018, Pittillo also worked with regional teams in Pine Bluff, Hot Springs and Texarkana Regional Executive of South Arkansas. Pittillo worked the first 21 years of her career at Jefferson Regional in Pine Bluff in several leadership positions. Prior to joining Arkansas Blue Cross, she was the executive director of the Jefferson Regional Foundation, served as a member of the Jefferson Regional Senior Leadership Committee and had oversight of all internal and external communication for the organization.
She earned a B.S.E. and a M.Ed. from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Rebecca was recognized as one of the 2022 Arkansas Money and Politics Power Women and the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas’ 100 Women of Impact in 2023.
Pittillo serves on the board of the United Way of Southeast Arkansas and is chair of the Southeast Arkansas College Board of Trustees. She serves on the Hope Rising International Board in Leogane, Haiti, where she has traveled and worked to strengthen the community and the hearts of the people living there.
She and her husband Chad Pittillo, Pine Bluff Market President of Simmons Bank, and their dog Oakley live in White Hall with the memory of their son Isaac in their hearts.