Greg Wasson

Gregory D. Wasson is president and CEO of Walgreen Co. and has served on the company’s board of directors since February 2009.

Wasson joined Walgreens as a pharmacy intern in 1980 while a student at Purdue University’s School of Pharmacy. After graduation, he managed several Houston drugstores before being promoted to district manager in 1986. He was promoted to a regional vice president of Walgreens store operations in 1999. 

In 2001, he was named a Walgreens vice president and executive vice president of Walgreens Health Initiatives, the company’s pharmacy benefit manager (PBM). Wasson was promoted to president of Walgreens Health Initiatives in 2002, and was named a Walgreens senior vice president in 2004 and a Walgreens executive vice president in 2005. He was named president and chief operating officer of Walgreens in 2007 and became CEO in February 2009.

Wasson serves on the board of directors for the National Association of Chain Drug Stores and the Retail Industry Leaders Association.  He is a member of The Economic Club of Chicago, The Business Council, the civic committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, CEOs Against Cancer, and board member of Midtown Educational Foundation.  Wasson also co-chairs 2009 Chicago fundraisers for the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society and Junior Achievement. 

Wasson earned a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, in 1981