Stefano Pessina
Stefano Pessina is an Italian-Monegasque billionaire businessman and the vice chairman, chief executive officer, and the largest single shareholder of Walgreens Boots Alliance.
- Stefano Pessina heads the world’s largest drugstore chain, Walgreens Boots Alliance.
- Pessina bought over 1,500 rival companies across Europe, merged his UniChem Group with Alliance Boots and took it private in a $22 billion deal.
- Between 2012 and 2014, Walgreens bought 100% of his pharmacy chain, creating Walgreens Boots Alliance.
- In 2018 Walgreens Boots Alliance replaced General Electric in the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index.
- His journey began in 1977 when Pessina took over his family’s pharmaceutical wholesaler in Naples, Italy.
