Ornella Barra Explained

Ornella Barra
Birth Place:Chiavari, Genoa, Italy
Birth Date: 20 December 1953 df=y
Alma Mater:University of Genoa
Chief operating officer, International Walgreens Boots Alliance
Nationality:Monegasque
Spouse:Stefano Pessina (2022-present)

Ornella Barra (born 20 December 1953) is an Italian-born Monegasque businesswoman.[1] A qualified pharmacist, she is chief operating officer, international of Walgreens Boots Alliance.[2] [3] She is married to the Italian billionaire Stefano Pessina.[4] [5]

Biography

Ornella Barra was born on 20 December 1953[6] [7] in Chiavari, Genoa, northwest Italy,[8] [9] into a family of entrepreneurs.[10] Ornella graduated as a pharmacist from the University of Genoa in 1979.[8]

Career

After building up a regional pharmaceutical distribution company, Di Pharma, she sold the business to Alleanza Salute Italia[11] (now Alliance Healthcare Italia), a firm founded and managed by Italian entrepreneur Stefano Pessina. He and Barra became partners both personally and professionally.[12] During this time, Barra also contributed to the creation of Alliance Santé, the Franco-Italian group with interests spanning Europe, and was made a board member in 1990.[13] Following Alliance Santé's merger with UniChem in 1997, she became a board member and executive director of Alliance Unichem.[14]

Following the merger between Alliance UniChem and Boots plc and the creation of Alliance Boots, in 2012 she became the company's Chief Executive, Wholesale and Brands. Alliance Boots merged with Walgreens in 2014, to form Walgreens Boots Alliance, and integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader based in Deerfield, Illinois. Barra is currently the company's chief operating officer, international.[15] [16] [17] [18] [3]

Barra is an honorary professor[19] at the University of Nottingham's School of Pharmacy, where she lectures on the internationalisation of pharmacy business and issues of corporate social responsibility.[20]

Barra founded, and is an executive director of the European Pharmacists Forum.[21] She is a member of the board of directors of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers (IFPW), and became chairman in October 2014.[22] She was president of Associazione Distributori Farmaceutici (ADF) (association of pharmaceutical distributors) from 2006 to 2009.[23] She became an executive member of ECR Europe (Efficient Consumer Response) in 2007.[24]

Ornella Barra was ranked 5th in the 2015 "Fortune Most Powerful Women" in business among female executives in Europe, Middle East and Africa.[25]

From 2013 to 2019 Barra was a member of the board of directors of Assicurazioni Generali.[26]

Barra is a member of the board of directors of AmerisourceBergen since January 2015.[27] [28]

Personal life

She is married to the Italian billionaire Stefano Pessina.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ORNELLA BARRA – Company Director Check. flixens.com. 18 September 2018.
  2. News: Sweeney. Brigid. Meet the new Walgreens COO who's also CEO Pessina's companion. 28 July 2016. Crain's Chicago Business. 18 June 2016.
  3. Web site: Ornella Barra. 10 January 2020.
  4. Web site: Motivi fiscali e non solo: Perché le grandi famiglie si spostano all'estero . 11 July 2022 .
  5. Web site: Ornella Barra-Pessina Decorata Grand'ufficiale della Stella d'Italia .
  6. Web site: Felsted . Andrea . 30 October 2011 . The cool chemist with health as a "hobby" . Financial Times.
  7. According to Bloomberg Businessweek she was aged 57 when her profile was retrieved on 28 August 2010; Simon Bowers, ‘Unichem's low-key Ornella Barra’, The Guardian, 5 August 2005, describes her as 51.
  8. http://www.ornellabarra.com/biography.html ‘Biography’
  9. Web site: Felsted. Andrea. The cool chemist with health as a "hobby". Financial Times. The Financial Times Ltd. 2 January 2014.
  10. Simon Bowers, ‘Unichem's low-key Ornella Barra’, The Guardian, 5 August 2005.
  11. Web site: Speaker Profiles. https://web.archive.org/web/20100106024828/http://www.ifpw.com/2008gmm/bus_speakers.htm. 6 January 2010. dead. 27 May 2010.
  12. Harry Wallop ‘Business profile: A recluse who keeps making the headlines’, The Telegraph, 31 March 2007.
  13. Web site: UniChem Farmaceutica/Alliance Sante merger. The Pharma Letter. 2 January 2015.
  14. Web site: Unichem's low-key Ornella Barra. Simon Bowers. The Guardian. 4 August 2005. 2 January 2015.
  15. Web site: Boots cleared to merge with Alliance Unichem . . 8 February 2006 .
  16. AmerisourceBergen Elects Ornella Barra to Its Board of Directors . 16 January 2015 .
  17. News: KKR to Earn Big Payout from Walgreen-Alliance Boots Deal . The Wall Street Journal . 31 December 2014 . Dezember . Ryan .
  18. Web site: Ornella Barra . 10 January 2020 .
  19. Web site: Ornella on list of powerful women . Nottingham Post. 5 October 2011. 23 April 2015.
  20. Web site: Ornella Barra is named in Fortune magazine's top 50 women in business. https://web.archive.org/web/20101202041444/http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/pharmacy/news/ornellabarra.aspx. 2 December 2010. dead. 25 November 2010.
  21. Web site: EPF Overview. https://web.archive.org/web/20081225074518/http://www.europeanpharmacistsforum.com/html/en/epfOverview/epfOverview.html. 25 December 2008. dead. 28 May 2010.
  22. Web site: IFPW. https://web.archive.org/web/20090117042229/http://www.ifpw.com/index.html. 17 January 2009. dead. 27 May 2010.
  23. Web site: COMITATO DI PRESIDENZA. https://web.archive.org/web/20100223111707/http://www.adfsalute.it/presentazione/comitatopresidenza.asp. 23 February 2010. dead. 27 May 2010.
  24. Web site: Executive Board. https://web.archive.org/web/20100129091212/http://ecr-all.org/about-ecr-europe/organisation-and-principles/executive-board/. 29 January 2010. dead. 27 May 2010.
  25. Web site: Ornella Barra .
  26. News: Generali, conferma per Donnet e Galateri. "Il dividendo salirà ma con meno pay-out" . Il Sole 24 Ore . 7 May 2019.
  27. Web site: AmerisourceBergen appoints Ornella Barra to the Board of Directors. 16 January 2015. talent4boards.com. 18 September 2018.
  28. Web site: Board of Directors – AmerisourceBergen Corporation. AmerisourceBergen Corporation. 18 September 2018.

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