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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 .
Pessina is married to Ornella Barra; she is chief operating officer, international of Walgreens Boots Alliance. [18] [19] Pessina was previously married to and divorced from Barbara, and has two adult children. [1] [20] According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Pessina's net worth was estimated at US$6.7 billion as of October 2024. [21]
Alliance Boots was purchased by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Stefano Pessina, the deputy chairman of the company, in April 2007 for £11.1 billion, taking the company private and beating a rival bid from Guy Hands's Terra Firma Capital Partners. [25] This was the first ever instance of a FTSE 100 company having been bought by a private equity ...
The architect of that deal, Stefano Pessina, later became CEO and then pushed in 2015 to buy Rite Aid for $17 billion. Two years later, after intense regulatory scrutiny, Pessina scaled down the ...
Her appointment is effective on March 15, 2021, and the current CEO Stefano Pessina will transition to the role of Executive Chairman of the Board. As CEO, Brewer will also join the WBA Board of ...
drugstore.com was an internet retailer in health and beauty care products. Its web operations were launched on February 24, 1999, and shut down on September 30, 2016 [2] after being acquired by Walgreens in March 2011 for $409 million.
In 2007 it was bought out in a private equity transaction by AB Acquisitions Limited, led by Stefano Pessina and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR). Alliance Boots GmbH was established in Switzerland during 2008 and is a direct subsidiary of AB Acquisitions Holdings Limited, which held all shares in the company.
Stefano Pessina founded Alleanza Salute Italia in 1977 under the name of Alleanza Farmaceutica, which expanded to form Alliance Santé SA with Antonin De Bono (at that time Chairman and CEO (1994-97) of Européenne de répartition pharmaceutique et d'investissements which became Alliance Santé Distribution). [4]