McKesson CEO and Executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, Brian Scott Tyler is the McKesson's CEO. McKesson has 80,000 employees, of which 62 are in a leadership position.
Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:
  • The McKesson executive team is 53% female and 47% male.
  • 65% of the management team is White.
  • 14% of McKesson management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 11% of the management team is Black or African American.
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Name & TitleBio
Brian Scott Tyler

CEO

Brian Scott Tyler's LinkedIn

Tyler has more than two decades of experience with McKesson, having served in a wide variety of leadership roles throughout the company. He has led nearly every major business within the company as well as McKesson’s corporate strategy and business development unit.

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Charles Olcott

Founder

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John McKesson

Founder

Britt J. Vitalone

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Britt J. Vitalone's LinkedIn

Britt Vitalone is the executive vice president and chief financial officer for McKesson Corporation. Vitalone assumed the role of chief financial officer in January 2018 and is responsible for providing strategic financial leadership for McKesson. This includes ensuring the company’s strategy creates shareholder value, communicating the company’s strategies and performance to investors, and implementing a capital structure, financial processes and controls to support the company’s growth and return on investment goals. Vitalone oversees the company's overall financial activities, including controllership, tax, treasury, financial planning, investor relations, internal audit and financial services operations. He also has responsibility for McKesson’s global direct and indirect procurement operations.

Vitalone joined McKesson in 2006, and prior to becoming executive vice president and chief financial officer, he served as senior vice president and chief financial officer, McKesson U.S. Pharmaceutical and Specialty Health. He also was senior vice president of corporate finance and M&A Finance, and senior vice president and chief financial officer, McKesson Medical-Surgical.

Vitalone is a member of McKesson’s executive committee. Additionally, he is a member of the CNBC Global CFO Council.

Vitalone holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from St. John Fisher College and is a certified public accountant. He is based in Las Colinas, Texas.

Lori A. Schechter

Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & General Counsel

Lori A. Schechter's LinkedIn

Lori A. Schechter is executive vice president, general counsel and chief compliance officer for McKesson Corporation. She is responsible for overseeing McKesson’s general counsel organization, which consists of the law, public affairs, compliance and corporate secretarial functions for McKesson and its subsidiaries.

Nancy Flores

Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer

Nancy Flores's LinkedIn

Flores previously served as CIO for Johnson Controls. Before Johnson Controls, Flores served as vice president of Business and Technology Services for Abbott Laboratories. She had a long tenure with Abbott, holding a number of leadership roles over her 22 years of service, including serving as the chief information officer. As Abbott’s CIO, she was responsible for the IT, cybersecurity, digital and analytics services organizations.

Flores earned bachelor’s degrees in both Mathematics and Computer Information Systems from Regis University in Denver, Colorado. She earned her master’s degree in Mathematics from the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado.

Tom Rodgers

EVP, Chief Strategy & BDO

Tom Rodgers's LinkedIn

Tom manages Cambia's external investment portfolio, with a particular focus on early stage healthcare technology and services. Prior to joining at Cambia, Tom was a partner at Advanced Technology Ventures, where he led ATV's efforts in Healthcare technology, focusing on Medical Devices. He represented ATV on the boards of several portfolio companies. Tom has significant operating experience in the health care industry including various strategy, business development, sales, and marketing roles at leading technology companies. Most recently he served as VP of corporate strategy and business development at McKesson Corporation. Prior to McKesson, he earned his entrepreneurial stripes as one of the early team members at FitLinxx, a venture-backed startup that pioneered the technology behind the Nike+ system. Before FitLinxx, Tom was a Product Manager at Genentech. He started his career as a consultant with The Wilkerson Group. Tom holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School, a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and was a fullback on the All American rugby team. He also sheepishly admits he was once the New Hampshire State high school math champion. He is based out of Cambia's San Francisco office.

Kelvin A. Baggett

Chief Impact Officer & Executive Vice President

Kelvin A. Baggett's LinkedIn

Dr. Baggett is a business leader & Board certified physician with extensive experience in developing/advancing health care performance-improvement strategies and positioning organizations for sustained growth. His expertise in clinical operations, quality, safety, regulatory compliance, change management, board relations, strategic planning and performance management has been consistently informed by his sound judgement, inspirational leadership style, outstanding communication skills, and his ability to build talent, and solve complex problems.

He currently serves as a Sr Advisor at Pharos Capital Group, where he provides strategic insights on targeted business segments/opportunities and advises on due diligence matters.

Before, Dr. Baggett served as SVP/CCO and CMO at Tenet Healthcare, where he transformed a process-oriented culture into an outcomes-focused one; improved the quality, safety, efficiency/effectiveness of care; built cohesive relationships between the System and the provider community; and expanded the focus of care improvement/value creation beyond acute care to post-acute, sub-acute and population health.

Previously, as COO and VP, Clinical Strategies at HCA, he drove improved clinical performance, enabling HCA to rise to #1 one among investor-owned care providers for performance (per Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ core measures).

From 2006-2007, Dr. Baggett served as Strategic Business Consultant in HCA’s EPMO, where he developed/executed market-based service line strategies/tactics, and facilitated hospital throughput improvements.

A published author, he has received numerous recognitions & awards, and is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Baggett completed training at Yale, and completed his advanced training at Johns Hopkins and Duke University Medical Center. He has a BS from the University of NC, an MD from East Carolina University, a Master in Public Health from Johns Hopkins, and an MBA from Duke.

Kevin Kettler

President, Mckesson International & Chairman of The Management Board

Kirk Kaminsky

President

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McKesson Founders

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Charles Olcott

Founder

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John McKesson

Founder

McKesson Board Members

Name & TitleBio
Brian Scott Tyler

CEO

Brian Scott Tyler's LinkedIn

Tyler has more than two decades of experience with McKesson, having served in a wide variety of leadership roles throughout the company. He has led nearly every major business within the company as well as McKesson’s corporate strategy and business development unit.

Donald R. Knauss

Board Member

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Susan R. Salka

Board Member

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Bradley E. Lerman

Board Member

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Dominic J. Caruso

Board Member

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Maria Martinez

Board Member

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Edward A. Mueller

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Linda Provie Mantia

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M. Christine Jacobs

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Marie L. Knowles

Board Member

McKesson Leadership Demographics

McKesson Gender Distribution in Management Team

  • The McKesson executive team is 53% female and 47% male.
  • McKesson is 55% female and 45% male company-wide.
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Male
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Company-wide: 45%
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Female
53%
Company-wide: 55%

McKesson Executives by Race

Management Team:
  • The most common ethnicity among McKesson executive officers is White.
  • 65% of the management team is White.
  • 14% of McKesson's management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 11% of the management team is Black or African American.
Company-wide:
  • White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
  • 59% of employees are White.
  • 15% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.
  • 13% of employees are Black or African American.
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What employees say about the executives at McKesson

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3.0
A zippia user wrote a review on May 2023
Pros of working at McKesson

I learned many things and gained a lot of knowledge.

Cons of working at McKesson

Management is really poor. I’m a Lead and my supervisor will often tell me to do several things for our team then tell the team to do other things I’m not aware of.

McKesson Benefits

Health insurance for my son and getting discounted through our vitality bucks for the next year.

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A zippia user wrote a review on May 2023
Cons of working at McKesson

Training was suppose to be two weeks, not a fit conversation after 1 day. Although certified in there Entreprise Rx 8 years prior to be extended an offer to come back an do the same job done before…. Utte

Pros of working at McKesson

Did not have an opportunity- to work with manager

McKesson Benefits

Weekly contract

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4.0
A zippia user wrote a review on Sep 2021
Pros of working at McKesson

The people and work life balance

Cons of working at McKesson

Limited leadership and promotion opportunities.

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5.0
A zippia user wrote a review on May 2021
Pros of working at McKesson

the team and my supervisor

Cons of working at McKesson

leadership and spend practices

McKesson Benefits

stock plan, being able to support great projects

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A zippia user wrote a review on Oct 2019
Pros of working at McKesson

Great team, mission that matters, work-life balance, interesting work, solid benefits

Cons of working at McKesson

Lots of red tape and hierarchy, takes a long time to get things done, budget cuts make career advancement difficult

McKesson Benefits

Work from home, flexible hours, company matching 401k

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McKesson may also be known as or be related to McKesson, McKesson Corporation, McKesson Employees' Federal Credit Union, Mckesson and Olcott & McKesson (1833–1853) McKesson & Robbins (1853–1967) McKessonHBOC (1999–2001).