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Ornella Barra
Ornella Barra
BornDecember 1953 (1953-12) (age 70)
Chiavari, Genoa, Italy
NationalityMonegasque
Alma materUniversity of Genoa
TitleChief operating officer, International Walgreens Boots Alliance
PartnerStefano Pessina
Websitewww.ornellabarra.com

Ornella Barra (born 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 with the Italian billionaire Stefano Pessina.[4] Ornella was ranked 26th in Fortune Magazine's 2019 most powerful women in business for female executives outside the United States.[5]

Biography

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

Career

After building up a regional pharmaceutical distribution company, Di Pharma, she sold the business to Alleanza Salute Italia[10] (now Alliance Healthcare Italia), a firm founded and managed by Italian entrepreneur Stefano Pessina. He and Barra became partners both personally and professionally.[11] During this time, Barra also contributed[how?] to the creation of Alliance Santé, the Franco-Italian group with interests spanning Europe, and was made a board member in 1990.[12] Following Alliance Santé's merger with UniChem in 1997, she became a board member and Executive Director of Alliance Unichem.[13]

Barra is chief operating officer, international of Walgreens Boots Alliance.[2][14]

Barra is an honorary professor[15] at the University of Nottingham's School of Pharmacy, where she lectures on the internationalisation of pharmacy business and issues of corporate social responsibility.[16]

Barra founded, and is an executive director of the European Pharmacists Forum.[17] She is a member of the board of directors of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers (IFPW), and became chairman in October 2014.[18] She was president of Associazione Distributori Farmaceutici (ADF) (association of pharmaceutical distributors) from 2006 to 2009.[19] She became an executive member of ECR Europe (Efficient Consumer Response) in 2007.[20]

From 2013 to 2019 Barra was a member of the board of directors of Assicurazioni Generali.[21]

Barra at a London "Boots" location

Barra is a member of the board of directors of AmerisourceBergen since January 2015.[22][23]

Personal life

She has been the partner of Stefano Pessina, executive chairman of Walgreens Boots Alliance, for over 30 years.[4]

References

  1. ^ "ORNELLA BARRA - Company Director Check". www.flixens.com. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
  2. ^ a b Sweeney, Brigid (18 June 2016). "Meet the new Walgreens COO who's also CEO Pessina's companion". Crain's Chicago Business. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  3. ^ "Ornella Barra". 10 January 2020.
  4. ^ a b "Work is the drug that keeps Boots billionaire on song". The Sunday Times. 18 November 2012. Archived from the original on 27 April 2014. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  5. ^ "Ornella Barra". fortune.com. September 2019.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ a b ‘Biography’, ornellabarra.com
  8. ^ Felsted, Andrea. "The cool chemist with health as a "hobby"". Financial Times. The Financial Times Ltd. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
  9. ^ Simon Bowers, ‘Unichem's low-key Ornella Barra’, The Guardian, 5 August 2005.
  10. ^ "Speaker Profiles". Archived from the original on 6 January 2010. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
  11. ^ Harry Wallop ‘Business profile: A recluse who keeps making the headlines’, The Telegraph, 31 March 2007.
  12. ^ The Pharma Letter. "UniChem Farmaceutica/Alliance Sante merger". Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  13. ^ Simon Bowers (4 August 2005). "Unichem's low-key Ornella Barra". the Guardian. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  14. ^ "Ornella Barra". 10 January 2020.
  15. ^ "Ornella on list of powerful women". Nottingham Post. 5 October 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  16. ^ "Ornella Barra is named in Fortune magazine's top 50 women in business". Archived from the original on 2 December 2010. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
  17. ^ "EPF Overview". Archived from the original on 25 December 2008. Retrieved 28 May 2010.
  18. ^ "IFPW". Archived from the original on 17 January 2009. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
  19. ^ "COMITATO DI PRESIDENZA". Archived from the original on 23 February 2010. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
  20. ^ "Executive Board". Archived from the original on 29 January 2010. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
  21. ^ "Generali, conferma per Donnet e Galateri. "Il dividendo salirà ma con meno pay-out"". Il Sole 24 Ore. 7 May 2019.
  22. ^ "AmerisourceBergen appoints Ornella Barra to the Board of Directors". talent4boards.com. 16 January 2015. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
  23. ^ "Board of Directors - AmerisourceBergen Corporation". AmerisourceBergen Corporation. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
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