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Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
Not applicable.
Executive Officers of the Registrant
The following table sets forth, for each person currently serving as an executive officer of the Company, the
name, age (as of October 15, 2015) and office(s) held by such person.
Name Age Office(s) Held
James A. Skinner 70 Executive Chairman of the Board
Stefano Pessina 74 Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Ornella Barra 61 Executive Vice President, President and Chief Executive of Global
Wholesale and International Retail
George R. Fairweather 58 Executive Vice President and Global Chief Financial Officer
Alexander W. Gourlay 55 Executive Vice President, President of Walgreen Co.
Ken Murphy 49 Executive Vice President, President of Global Brands
Marco Pagni 53 Executive Vice President, Global Chief Legal and Administrative
Officer
Jan Stern Reed 55 Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Simon Roberts 44 Executive Vice President, President of Boots
Kimberly R. Scardino 44 Senior Vice President, Global Controller and Chief Accounting
Officer
Kathleen Wilson-Thompson 58 Executive Vice President and Global Chief Human Resources
Officer
Set forth below is information regarding the principal occupations and employment and business experience over
the past five years for each executive officer. Executive officers are elected by, and serve at the discretion of, the
Board of Directors. Unless otherwise stated, employment is by Walgreens Boots Alliance.
Mr. Skinner has served as Executive Chairman since January 2015, having served as non-executive Chairman of
the Board from July 2012 to January 2015. Mr. Skinner previously served McDonald’s Corporation as Vice
Chairman from January 2003 to June 2012, as Chief Executive Officer from November 2004 to June 2012 and as
a director from 2004 to June 2012. Mr. Skinner has served as a director of Illinois Tool Works Inc. since 2005
and as a director of Hewlett-Packard Company since 2013.
Mr. Pessina has served as CEO since July 2015 and as Executive Vice Chairman since January 2015. He served
as Acting CEO from January 2015 to July 2015. Previously, he served as Executive Chairman of Alliance Boots
from July 2007 to December 2014. Prior to that, Mr. Pessina served as Alliance Boots Executive Deputy
Chairman. Prior to the merger of Alliance UniChem and Boots Group, Mr. Pessina was Executive Deputy
Chairman of Alliance UniChem, previously having been its Chief Executive for three years through December
2004. Mr. Pessina was appointed to the Alliance UniChem Board in 1997 when UniChem merged with Alliance
Santé, the Franco-Italian pharmaceutical wholesale group which he established in Italy in 1977. Mr. Pessina also
serves on the Board of Directors of Galenica AG, a publicly-traded Swiss healthcare group, and a number of
private companies, including Sprint Acquisitions.
Ms. Barra has served as Executive Vice President, President and Chief Executive of Global Wholesale and
International Retail since December 2014. Previously, she served as the Chief Executive, Wholesale and Brands
of Alliance Boots from September 2013 to December 2014 and Chief Executive of the Pharmaceutical Wholesale
Division of Alliance Boots from January 2009 to September 2013, and before that, Wholesale & Commercial
Affairs Director of Alliance Boots. Since April 2013, Ms. Barra has served as a director of Assicurazioni
Generali, the parent company of Generali Group, a global insurance group, and since January 2015, Ms. Barra
has served as a director of AmerisourceBergen Corp. Ms. Barra also serves as a director of a number of private
companies, including Sprint Acquisitions and, until February 2015, served as a director of Alliance Boots.
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