Steven H. Collis: Success In The U.S.

When we think of globalization most often we think about the products that can now go from one country to another. We sometimes forget about the human talent movement that has been taking place. People of all nationalities have been moving in different countries to make their own success stories.

One person who has had a great amount of success is Steven H. Collis. Steven is from South Africa. He completed his articles of clerkship with Price Waterhouse and received his Charter Accountancy license in 1986. This is the South African equivalent of a Certified Public Accountant. Before he emigrated to the U.S., Steven served as a member of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

He was a Principal and served as General Manager of Sterling Medical in Irvine, California. Stevens then joined ASD. He was General Manager from 1994 to 1996. With good performance he became Executive Vice President of ASD Specialty Healthcare, Inc. from 1996 to September 2000.

His next assignment was as Senior Vice President and President of ASD Specialty Healthcare Inc., a segment of Bergen Brunswig Corp, from September 2000 to August 2001. The year 2001 also saw the merger of Amerisource Health Corp. with Bergen Brunswig Corp. which was a $7 billion union of two former competitors forming AmerisourceBergen Corp.  

The merger did not stop Steven’s steady climb up the corporate ladder. He founded a subsidiary, AmericasourceBergen Specialty Group. This subsidiary works with manufacturers to deliver specialty products such as biotechnology drugs, plasma derivatives and cancer treatments to physicians and patients. He served at this subsidiary, based in Dallas, Texas as President from September 2007 to September 2009. 

Steven then became Executive Vice President and President of AmerisourceBergen Drug Corp., which is the biggest subsidiary of the company with revenue of $60 billion. He was promoted to President and COO of AmerisourceBergen Corp. in November 2010.

With the retirement of his predecessor, Steven became the President and CEO of the company in July 2011.  He heads a company that provides wholesale drug distribution and related services which had revenue of $79.5 billion in 2012.

Steven has had a very successful career in his adoptive homeland; another example of how globalized the world has become.