Walgreens Boots Alliance has appointed named Neal Sample as its new Executive Vice President and CIO.
Sample will lead the strategy for WBA’s IT function and the implementation of its technology and digital innovation, with an emphasis on improving the digital experience for customers and patients, as WBA continues its next phase of growth into a customer-centric healthcare company.
Sample is an award-winning technologist and seasoned executive who has a strong track record of Driving growth and innovation. He brings more than 20 years of deep experience across highly regulated industries including healthcare, financial services and consumer Internet, and has worked at start-ups and legacy Fortune 100 companies.
He currently serves as Chairman of the Board at Wellfield Technologies as well as the Chair of the Board of Trustees for the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis, Missouri.
He was previously the CIO for Northwestern Mutual, where he rebuilt, optimized and centralized the technology function for the company.
Prior, he served as COO and CIO of Express Scripts, where he led the architecture and platform delivery of complex information systems for nearly 30,000 employees and 80 million patients nationwide.
Sample has also held several roles within the Enterprise Growth Business at American Express where he pioneered product launches focused on digital banking alternatives for lower-income individuals, improved EBITDA, led spin-off and wind-down of non-core businesses, transformed a waterfall product development organization to Agile, updated and moved mainframe application suite to the cloud and launched major new digital co-branded products with key industry players.
