Walgreens Names Mark Lelinski Corporate Vice President of Market Access
July 16 2013 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Walgreens (NYSE: WAG) (Nasdaq: WAG) has named Mark Lelinski as
its new corporate vice president, market access. Lelinski will be
responsible for contracting and pricing strategies, integration
efforts across Walgreens pharmacy, health and wellness division,
sales and account management, and overseeing the continued
evolution of the company’s managed market strategies. He joined
Walgreens on June 17.
“Mark is a seasoned leader with an established track record of
delivering results, and will help to build upon the excellent work
that is being done in our market access group,” said Kermit
Crawford, Walgreens president of pharmacy, health and wellness.
“His experience in managed market roles both in the U.S. and
internationally is the right fit for where Walgreens is headed. As
a strategic partner of choice in the health care industry, we
believe Mark’s relationship-driven approach will help us strengthen
our partnerships and create more value from the emerging models and
markets that will be key to our growth moving forward.”
Lelinski previously spent nine years with AstraZeneca in a
number of marketing, strategy and managed market roles, both in the
U.S. and abroad. In his most recent role as vice president,
Americas region marketing and sales, Lelinski was responsible for
implementing new commercial capabilities across markets in the
U.S., Canada and Latin America. He also led efforts to build new
capabilities in Latin America to improve both market access and
patient affordability for the emerging middle class. As vice
president, U.S. managed markets, Lelinski led all aspects of payer
strategy, B2B marketing, account management, contracting and
pricing with all payer customers.
Prior to joining AstraZeneca, Lelinski was a partner at
Accenture, where he headed the pharmaceutical marketing and sales
effectiveness practice. He also worked in a number of executive
roles supporting physician networks, health plans and health
informatics companies.
About Walgreens
As the nation's largest drugstore chain with fiscal 2012 sales
of $72 billion, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) vision is to become
America’s first choice for health and daily living. Each day,
Walgreens provides more than 6 million customers the most
convenient, multichannel access to consumer goods and services and
trusted, cost-effective pharmacy, health and wellness services and
advice in communities across America. Walgreens scope of pharmacy
services includes retail, specialty, infusion, medical facility and
mail service, along with respiratory services. These services
improve health outcomes and lower costs for payers including
employers, managed care organizations, health systems, pharmacy
benefit managers and the public sector. The company operates 8,098
drugstores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto
Rico. Take Care Health Systems is a Walgreens subsidiary that is
the largest and most comprehensive manager of worksite health and
wellness centers and in-store convenient care clinics, with more
than 700 locations throughout the country.
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