• Led the Walgreens M&A Program to the single most successful year in company history (2024) - over 700 transactions, 20+ million annual prescriptions, $75M+ adjusted operating income - all with incredibly attractive portfolio financials • Led several large acquisitions as VP while managing cross-functional IMO (Integration Management Office), including the purchase of remaining Winn-Dixie Pharmacies in FL/GA/AL/LA, SaveMart Pharmacies in California, Bi-Mart Pharmacies in the Pacific Northwest, Brookshires Pharmacies in TX/LA/AK, Medly/Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacies (Bankruptcy transaction), and 300+ Rite Aid Pharmacies across Ohio & Michigan (Bankruptcy Transaction)• Pioneered the first 'box in a box' concept in Walgreens' 120+ year history - operating Walgreens Pharmacies within BiMart and Brookshires stores (which remain open for front-end business)• Hired over 400 Pharmacists (net) over the past two years as part of our transactions, all during a national staff crisis across our industry• Created, implemented, and continued to refine standardized divestiture process over the past 10 years, now standard across the industry to optimize our fleet and facilitate the smooth transition of customer care

• As Director, directly managed a team of 10 Regional Managers responsible for soliciting, building relationships with, and negotiating with strategic local, regional, and national pharmacy acquisition targets while advising upper-executives on execution of key initiatives.• Developed, Performed Due Diligence, and Implemented Retail Operations Control Center (ROCC) for acquisition & integration of 1,932 Rite Aid locations – a national, $4.38B asset transaction • Headed semi-annual Store Optimization process of exploring strategic alternatives for and potential divestitures of underperforming assets with national/regional competition (sell-side).• Designed and refined comprehensive Salesforce.com M&A process to facilitate ease in solicitation, negotiation, retention/valuation, and post-deal reporting; this system is used daily by 70+ team members for analysis and knowledge retention.• Reorganized Pharmacy Acquisition Department, empowering Regional Managers by removing a reporting layer and elevating high-performers by reassigning to key territories across US.• Negotiated largest single-deal delivery-based pharmacy transaction in Walgreens history, working with local operations team to implement delivery system with digital tracking, expanded marketing, and cloned pharmacy terminals to retain business.• Responsible for monthly reporting to Executive VPs and President of Walgreens on current pipeline, upcoming closings, dollar spend, projected returns, and process findings.• Developed and implemented formal training program for Pharmacy Acquisitions, leading hires through comprehensive 3-week process focused on solicitation, valuation, negotiation, and implementation. • Served as Value Creation Services Head of Intern Recruiting; working with Walgreens’ Treasurer and responsible for directing 5 campus recruiting teams, developing a quarterly campus-recruiting processes, placing 20 summer interns annually, creating/managing school-by-school annual budgets.

• Closed 65+ transactions in two separate FY’s (each time was the largest # of file buys a Walgreens Manager has ever completed in a 1 year period) – resulted in 4.6+ million prescriptions at ~$70 Million.• Promoted to newly-created position (Sr. Manager) after only 16 months. As only Senior Manager in department, directly managed a team of 4 Regional Managers responsible for all pharmacy acquisitions nationally, while indirectly supervising 8 others through matrix reporting structure.• As Senior Manager, led the Pharmacy Acquisitions group in quantity of transactions and retention of business, at the highest average IRR, and the lowest price per prescription in FY 2010–FY 2015.• Performed dual role as Senior Manager & Regional Manager, responsible for Western US & Puerto Rican pharmacy acquisitions – 3,300+ independent pharmacies, simultaneously managing relationships with 84 Walgreen DMs/Rx Supervisors, 14 VPs & Market Pharmacy Directors, and Executive Corporate VPs.

• Directed team of 5 Market Managers who develop & maintain market strategies for the Eastern Region of the US (~50 million ppl). Mkt Mgrs are teamed with Real Estate Mgrs, Healthcare Mgrs, and Regional Store Operations VPs to develop strategies to grow pharmacy market share, front end sales and net income.• Served as strategic liaison to Mergers & Acquisitions, directing strategic analyses for 30+ regional pharmacy chains.• As Hiring Manager & Lead Recruiter for Market Strategy, interviewe, recruited, or hired 18 of 35-member department.• As Training Manager, designed comprehensive, hands-on, “learn/apply” concept- and project-based training system which included 6 weeks of classroom training and 6 weeks of field training. • Provided direction to market mgrs on cross functional teams on the following research topics: competitive analysis/market entry, asset development within markets, integration of acquired businesses, CBD project, independent pharmacy acquisitions, market audits, 24-hour store performance & cost/benefit, and third party issues.

• Initiated and completed 24-hour research project whose inception across the company has saved Walgreens an estimated $27 million over the past two years, with 180+ stores scaling back on hours. The innovative findings from the study now serve as the basis for Walgreens methodology on operating stores 24 hours. • Collaborated w/ internal store concepts group to rank markets and specific locations for receiving new format concepts chain-wide: Customer Centric Retailing (CCR), Low Volume Remote (LVR), High Volume Neighborhood, Food Desert, Low Cost Prototype, Expanded Beauty, and Senior locations.• Created annual, comprehensive strategic market plans covering 30+ Metropolitan areas to identify unique business strategies, optimize growth, and increase sales through Walgreens’ different SBUs (retail, clinic, hospital, etc).• Designed internal model for the sales forecasts of new stores, relocations, acquisitions, onsite opportunities, and remodels which has been used department-wide for 7+ years, and is still used daily by Market Strategy. • Performed comparative analysis over 200 sites (CA, ID, KY, TN, IL, IA, OR, NY) including detailed fieldwork, volume estimates, and presenting site summaries/recommendations to biweekly Real Estate Committee (comprised of top company executives) to provide framework for evaluation of individual site and market plans.