Shane Spees

Michael “Shane” Spees is the president and chief executive officer of North Mississippi Health Services (NMHS). A native of Tupelo, Mississippi, Shane joined NMHS as president and CEO in December 2013. Before joining NMHS, he served as president and CEO for Baptist Health System in Birmingham, Alabama, from 2007-2013. He previously worked in Texas, where he was president from 2004-2007 of Valley Baptist Hospital Holdings Inc., which serves the Rio Grande Valley, and senior vice president and CEO of Valley Baptist Medical Center in Harlingen, all of which are part of Valley Baptist Health System. Spees held several leadership roles within the Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, which serves the greater Houston area and much of Southeast Texas, from 1995-2004.

He received his master's degree in health care administration from the University of Houston at Clear Lake in 1997, where he was recognized for academic and leadership excellence. Spees graduated from the University of Mississippi with a bachelor of public administration degree in 1992 and the University of Mississippi School of Law with his juris doctor in 1995. He was admitted to the Mississippi Bar in 1995.