WATCH: General Mills VP Named to MNsure Board

Gov. Mark Dayton on Tuesday named General Mills’ vice president of global communications as one of six appointees to a board that will oversee the new state-run health insurance marketplace.

Tom Forsythe has been with the Golden Valley-based company for more than two decades, according to Politics in Minnesota. He’s also been on the boards of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Twin Cities Public Television.

Forsythe and others on the board will oversee the new MNsure health insurance exchange that will manage health care coverage for about 1.3 million Minnesotans under the federal Affordable Care Act. Enrollment begins Oct. 1. Coverage starts Jan. 1, 2014.

Watch Dayton’s announcement of the MNsure board in the video above.