Steve collis

Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer,
Amerisource Bergen 

Steven H. Collis is Chairman, President and CEO of AmerisourceBergen  Corporation, a global healthcare solutions leader, currently ranked  No. 10 on the Fortune 500. He was elected president and CEO in 2011  and chairman in 2016.  

Under Mr. Collis’ leadership, AmerisourceBergen has experienced  tremendous financial growth. The company’s annual revenue has  jumped more than 80% during Mr. Collis’ tenure as CEO and its  number of employees has risen to 42,000, with offices in more than  50 countries worldwide.  

Several strategic investments and acquisitions enabled the company to  expand its breadth of services and solutions resulting in unprecedented  customer partnerships, global reach, and deep expertise that is shaping  the equity, innovation, and access of healthcare in a meaningful way.  

In 2012, AmerisourceBergen acquired World Courier, the premier global  specialty provider of transportation, storage and distribution services for  global clinical trials. The addition of World Courier’s unique capabilities  and expertise to the existing commercialization services within  AmerisourceBergen only further strengthened the company’s worldwide  offerings to global biopharma partners, and provided an established  platform to expand specialty services outside North America for the first  time in company history.  

AmerisourceBergen’s agreement with Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA)  in 2013 marked an industry first—with a national pharmacy chain turning  over all its pharmaceutical distribution to a wholesaler and collaborating  on a global basis for generic product sourcing.  

The company’s 2015 acquisition of MWI Veterinary Supply further reflect  AmerisourceBergen’s ability to deliver value in diverse aspects of patient  care and growing markets. As a result, the Wall Street Journal named  Mr. Collis as the best performing chief executive in the Philadelphia region  for 2015, and Barron’s ranked AmerisourceBergen two years in a row as  No. 1 on their list of the 500 top performing companies.

In 2021, AmerisourceBergen extended and expanded upon its long-term strategic  customer relationship with WBA and completed the acquisition of European-based  company, Alliance Healthcare. The acquisition enhanced AmerisourceBergen’s reach  and solutions within pharmaceutical distribution, increased the breadth of  its global manufacturer services, and further advanced the company’s ability to  provide innovative, global healthcare solutions for all its customers and patient  populations around the world.  

Mr. Collis has additionally forged a clear path in fulfilling AmerisourceBergen’s purpose  of being united in our responsibility to create healthier futures. He spearheaded the  creation of the AmerisourceBergen Foundation, the company’s first enterprise-wide,  nonprofit charitable organization, which supports health-related causes that enrich the  global community. Under his leadership, the company’s commitment to diversity, equity  and inclusion continues to be recognized, with AmerisourceBergen being named a  DiversityInc Noteworthy Company in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2022. The company was  also honored by the Women’s Forum of New York as a leading company for gender  balance on its board of directors.  

Mr. Collis’ career with AmerisourceBergen spans nearly three decades and includes  time leading the company’s specialty and wholesale distribution and related services  businesses. He helped found the former Specialty Group business in 1994 and grew it  into the market leader in specialty pharmaceutical distribution and product  commercialization services.  

Mr. Collis earned a Bachelor of Commerce with Honors degree from the University of  Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. In addition to serving as chairman of  AmerisourceBergen’s board of directors, he serves on the board of the International  Federation of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers. Mr. Collis is a founding vice chairman of the  American Cancer Society’s CEOs Against Cancer Pennsylvania chapter and serves on  the Board of Governors for the American Red Cross.