Walgreens has promoted Steve Turner to CIO, effective April 1. The company veteran oversaw the pharmacy retailer’s foray into Hadoop data analytics. Turner will work with outgoing CIO Abhi Dhar during the transition.
“Steve’s experience and his deep knowledge of our systems position him well to move into this new role,” a Walgreens spokesman told CIO.com via email. Turner will report jointly to Walgreens Boots Alliance Co-COO Alex Gourlay and Global CIO Anthony Roberts.
Turner, who joined the company in 2009, most recently worked as vice president of service delivery and infrastructure, where he oversaw Walgreens’ data centers, compute, storage, databases, telecom, data networks and office automation capabilities.
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