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.
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