Walgreens Boots Alliance announces Hsiao Wang as new CIO
Walgreens Boots Alliance has appointed Hsiao Wang as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer.
The company’s board of directors says that it has also formed a finance and technology committee to give “even greater focus to this critical function”.
“We are making tremendous progress on our strategic priorities, including transforming and aligning our core business and building our next growth engine with consumer centric healthcare solutions. With this announcement, we are entering our next phase of execution and elevating our capabilities even further,” says Roz Brewer, CEO, WBA.
“We want to welcome Hsiao to our executive leadership team. He is an incredibly talented leader and technologist.”
“Together with our board’s new finance and technology committee, he will be instrumental to achieving our goals and truly differentiating Walgreens Boots Alliance in how we deliver the healthcare of the future.”
Wang joins from The Michaels Company where, as Executive Vice President and CIO, he oversaw product development, engineering and operations for all technology functions.
Prior to that, he spent 16 years at Walmart in an array of roles with increasing leadership responsibility in technology and IT, culminating in his role as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Sam’s Club where he established artificial intelligence, robotics, image and speech recognition and mobile capabilities.
“Joining a company with such strong consumer trust and a clear vision to be the leading partner in reimagining local healthcare and wellbeing for all is a tremendous opportunity. I am excited to work with an outstanding team to lead the continued transformation of technology and digital innovation at WBA, as well as unlock and create consumer-centric healthcare solutions,” Wang says.
Wang succeeds Francesco Tinto.
During his three years at the company, Tinto’s highlights included expediting its digital modernisation by moving to the cloud, deploying SAP S/4 across all Walgreens stores and expanded partnerships with Microsoft and Adobe.
“We are very thankful to Francesco for accelerating our digital transformation, which has been integral to our company’s success. In many ways, he and his team have laid the groundwork that will enable our company to excel even further in the future,” says Brewer.
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