Jan. 16--Walgreens Boots Alliance top attorney Thomas Sabatino is the latest executive to leave the company.
Sabatino will join Hertz Global Holdings as senior executive vice president, chief administrative officer and general counsel starting Feb. 9. Sabatino had been general counsel for the former Walgreen Co. since 2011 and chief administrative officer since last year. He will remain with the company until the end of January, a month after Walgreen's acquisition of Alliance Boots closed Dec. 31 and formed holding company Walgreens Boots Alliance.
"It has been a privilege to serve Walgreens during this transitional period, to work with such a top-notch organization and to lead the integration of these two iconic companies," Sabatino said in a statement.
"Tom played a vital role in helping us to close the merger before the end of 2014 and in overseeing the integration of our two companies over the course of the past year," said Jim Skinner, Walgreens Boots Alliance executive chairman.
Walgreens Boots expects to announce his successor at the end of January.
Walgreen's CEO Greg Wasson retired after the close of the Alliance Boots acquisition, handing the baton to Stefano Pessina, executive chairman of Alliance Boots, until the company finds a successor. The company's former chief financial officer, Wade Miquelon, left the company in recent months and sued the company in October, saying he was defamed by comments that suggested he was responsible for a $1 billion forecasting error. Kermit Crawford, Walgreen's president of pharmacy, health and wellness, also retired at year-end after 31 years with the company.
Former Kraft CFO Tim McLevish replaced Miquelon. Alliance Boots executive Alex Gourlay has taken over as president of customer experience and daily living, and Richard Ashworth, a director of health care, health and beauty at Alliance Boots, took Crawford's position.
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