Ornella Barra
Chief Executive Pharmaceutical Wholesale Division, Alliance Boots
Ornella Barra, a graduated pharmacist, is Chief Executive, Pharmaceutical Wholesale Division of Alliance Boots. She heads up Alliance Healthcare, the International Division of Alliance Boots, which is present in sixteen countries and supplies over 140,000 pharmacies, doctors, health centres and hospitals from over 370 warehouses. Moreover it supports a large network of independent pharmacies and operates a number of owned pharmacies. Ornella is also responsible for Boots International, the Health&Beauty retail business that operates outside the UK, with outlets in Continental Europe, America, South Eastern Asia and in the Middle East.
Alliance Boots, privately owned since July 2007 when it was acquired by AB Acquisitions Limited (Stefano Pessina and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts), was created as a result of the merger of equals between the Boots Group PLC and Alliance UniChem Plc in July 2006. It is present in more than 20 countries with over 115.000 employees and operates more than 3,200 health and beauty retail outlets in nine countries of which just under 3,000 have a pharmacy.
Prior to the merger of Alliance UniChem and Boots Group, Ornella was Board member and Executive Director of Alliance UniChem from 1997 after UniChem merged with Alliance Santé, the Franco-Italian group with interests spanning Europe, of which she had been Board Member since 1990. In 1984 she founded a pharmaceutical distribution company in Italy, which was acquired by Alleanza Salute Italia (now Alliance Healthcare Italia) in 1986.
Ornella is a Board Member of the Italian Enterprise Representative Body (Confcommercio) and also of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers. In 2007 she was also appointed Executive Member of the ECR Europe (Efficient Consumer Response). She is Special Professor of the University of Nottingham’s School of Pharmacy.
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