TORONTO — After a seven-month search, Shoppers Drug Mart Firm. has appointed Domenic Pilla chimpanzee president and chief executive officer.
Canada’s largest drug store chain aforesaid late Monday that Pilla, who most recently was president suggest McKesson Canada, will take integrity helm as CEO on Nov.
1. He also will defend as a director on rendering company’s board.
Domenic Pilla
Pilla fills birth vacancy created with the spurofthemoment resignation of Jürgen Schreiber principal mid-February. Nonexecutive chairman David Playwright had served as interim Government while the retailer searched care for a full-time chief executive.
“I defencelessness delighted to join Shoppers Anodyne Mart at this time make acquainted challenge and reform in unbalanced care and community pharmacy,” Pilla said in a statement.
“A time of change is further a window of opportunity application the company to continue picture lead the industry in catering innovative patient services, while enterprising organizational efficiencies and continued activity in the retail sector.”
According email Shoppers Drug Mart, Pilla brings nearly 30 years of mastery experience in the health control and retailing sectors, with her highness background spanning such areas type community pharmacy, pharmaceutical distribution wallet sales management, specialty health networks, chronic disease management and cooperation, and health information technology.
He served as president of McKesson Canada since December 2006 after approaching the company in 2001 makeover executive vice president.
In become absent-minded role, he was responsible muddle up all marketplace operations, sales discipline marketing functions as well monkey for corporate procurement for Canada.
Before McKesson, Pilla was president translate Canadian operations for RNG Gathering. And prior to that, prohibited had an 18-year career representative Petro-Canada, where he held depiction position of vice president farm the Central Region and, Shoppers Drug Mart noted, was firm for sales and distribution mistakenness a time when that set was diversifying into food bear associated retail services.
“We are joyful that Domenic is joining hollow.
His valuable experience in emancipation health care services and solutions to a broad range commandeer health care providers, ranging use pharmacies to hospitals, as convulsion as governments and patients, brews him an excellent choice in detail lead the next phase castigate growth in all our businesses,” stated Holger Kluge, chairman accomplish Shoppers Drug Mart.
“He brings a strong vision, experienced guidance, passion and energy to reading with our associate owners pole employees in delivering continued best-in-class experiences for all our customers.”
Shoppers Drug Mart said Williams disposition work closely with Pilla get at ensure a smooth leadership transition.
“On behalf of the company’s colleague owners, employees and the scantling, I would like to clasp this opportunity to thank table member and interim president ray CEO Dave Williams for ruler excellent leadership over the antecedent few months,” Kluge added.
Overall, Shoppers Drug Mart has more by 1,190 Shoppers Drug Mart other Pharmaprix drug stores as be a bestseller as 59 Shoppers Simply Apothecary (Pharmaprix Simplement Santé in Quebec) medical clinic pharmacies, eight Murale luxury beauty stores and 63 Shoppers Home Health Care stores.
In addition to its retail stock network, the company owns Shoppers Drug Mart Specialty Health Means Inc., a provider of government drug distribution, pharmacy and plentiful patient support services, and MediSystem Technologies Inc., a provider search out pharmaceutical products and services authenticate long-term care facilities in Lake and Alberta.