Gregory Wasson
| Gregory David Wasson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 19, 1958 Lafayette, Indiana, US |
| Education | Twin Lakes High School, Monticello, Indiana |
| Alma mater | Purdue University |
| Occupation | Co-founder and president of Wasson Enterprise, former president and CEO of Walgreens, director of Verizon Communications, director of PNC Financial Services Group, director of Health Care Service Corporation |
| Successor | Stefano Pessina |
| Website | http://www.wassonenterprise.com |
Gregory David Wasson (born October 19, 1958) is co-founder and president of Wasson Enterprise, a family-based investment office, and the former president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ: WBA). Prior to the merger of Walgreens and Alliance Boots, Wasson was president and CEO of Walgreens, the US's largest retail community pharmacy chain.
Wasson served as CEO at Walgreens from 2009 to 2014. Since joining the company in 1980, he was appointed to positions of increasing responsibility, including president of Walgreens Health Initiatives in 2002, senior vice president in 2004, executive vice president in 2005, and president and chief operating officer in 2007.
Wasson has been a director of Verizon Communications Inc., since March 2013. Since July 2015, he has been a director of PNC Financial Services. He joined Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), the US's largest customer-owned health insurance company, as a director in November 2015.
Wasson was born October 19, 1958 in Lafayette, Indiana, the third of five children of Richard "Dick" and Phyllis Wasson. His family lived in Delphi until he was 13, and then moved to nearby Monticello, Indiana. Wasson graduated from Twin Lakes High School.
Two of Wasson's relatives were pharmacists, and they encouraged him to study pharmacy at Purdue University. Wasson met his future wife there, also a pharmacy student. They married on their graduation day in 1981.
Wasson joined Walgreens as a pharmacy intern in 1980 while a student. Three days after his marriage, they relocated to Houston, where he had a post as a management trainee. He was managing his first store four months later.
He was promoted to district manager in Milwaukee in 1986, with 30 store managers reporting to him. Wasson was promoted to a regional vice president of the store operations division in 1999.
In 2001, he was promoted again to Walgreens vice president and made an executive vice president of Walgreens Health Initiatives, the company's pharmacy benefit manager (PBM). Wasson was promoted to president of Walgreens Health Initiatives in 2002, Walgreens senior vice president in 2004 and to a Walgreens executive vice president in 2005.
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