Brian Thompson was an Iowa-raised father, husband and CEO of one of the largest health care companies in the world.

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson grew up as a farm boy in small-town Iowa, and that's how friends and neighbors there remember him.

Brian Thompson, the UnitedHealthCare CEO who was gunned down on a New York City street Wednesday morning, was an accomplished high school and college scholar in Iowa and is being mourned by ...