--- description: Steve Beard is the Chairman and CEO of Covista. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Steve Beard ## Steve Beard Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Steve Beard is the Chairman and CEO of Covista. ## Steve Beard Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Feb 5, 2026 ### [America's Health Care Workforce Crisis Is a Patient Crisis](https://time.com/7371653/americas-health-care-workforce-crisis/) The gap in the number of open health care jobs, and the number of workers who can fill them, impacts... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/steve-beard/","name":"Steve Beard"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/steve-beard/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/steve-beard/"},"name":"Steve Beard","jobTitle":null,"description":"Steve Beard is the Chairman and CEO of Covista.","url":"https://time.com/author/steve-beard/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```