Walgreens Boots Alliance Announces Key Leadership Appointments |
DEERFIELD, Ill., April 25, 2019 - Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA) announced today a number of key leadership appointments to accelerate its transformation, lead strategies for long-term sustainable growth and drive operational excellence. The new appointments are Global Chief Digital Officer Gunjan Bhow, Global Controller and Chief Accounting Officer Heather Dixon, Global Chief Marketing Officer Vineet Mehra, Global Chief Commercial Officer Annie Murphy and Global Chief Supply Chain Officer Colin Nelson. These leaders all started their roles in recent months. The global chief digital officer, global chief marketing officer, global chief commercial officer and global chief supply chain officer are newly created roles at WBA. The following are brief biographies for the new appointees. Full biographies and photographs are available on request.
- Gunjan Bhow, Global Chief Digital Officer
- Heather Dixon, Global Controller and Chief Accounting Officer
- Vineet Mehra, Global Chief Marketing Officer
- Annie Murphy, Global Chief Commercial Officer
- Colin Nelson, Chief Global Supply Chain Officer
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About Walgreens Boots Alliance Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) is the first global pharmacy-led, health and wellbeing enterprise. The company's heritage of trusted health care services through community pharmacy care and pharmaceutical wholesaling dates back more than 100 years. Walgreens Boots Alliance is the largest retail pharmacy, health and daily living destination across the U.S. and Europe. Walgreens Boots Alliance and the companies in which it has equity method investments together have a presence in more than 25 countries and employ more than 415,000 people. The company is a global leader in pharmacy-led, health and wellbeing retail and, together with its equity method investments, has more than 18,500 stores in 11 countries as well as one of the largest global pharmaceutical wholesale and distribution networks, with more than 390 distribution centers delivering to more than 230,000 pharmacies, doctors, health centers and hospitals each year in more than 20 countries. In addition, Walgreens Boots Alliance is one of the world's largest purchasers of prescription drugs and many other health and wellbeing products. The company's portfolio of retail and business brands includes Walgreens, Duane Reade, Boots and Alliance Healthcare, as well as increasingly global health and beauty product brands, such as No7, Soap & Glory, Liz Earle, Sleek MakeUP and Botanics. Walgreens Boots Alliance is proud to be a force for good, leveraging many decades of experience and its international scale, to care for people and the planet through numerous social responsibility and sustainability initiatives that have an impact on the health and wellbeing of millions of people. Walgreens Boots Alliance is included in Fortune magazine's 2019 list of the World's Most Admired Companies and ranked first in the food and drugstore category. This is the 26th consecutive year that Walgreens Boots Alliance or its predecessor company, Walgreen Co., has been named to the list. More company information is available at www.walgreensbootsalliance.com. (WBA-GEN)
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