2017 One Promise Gala Honoree
Steven H. Collis
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, AmerisourceBergen Corporation
Accepting the LivingĀ and Giving Award on behalf of AmerisourceBergen at the 2017 Breakthrough T1D One Promise Gala
Steven H. Collis is chairman, president and CEO of AmerisourceBergen Corporation, a global healthcare solutions leader, currently ranked No. 12 on the Fortune 500. He was elected president and CEO in 2011 and chairman in 2016.
Under Mr. Collisā leadership, AmerisourceBergen has experienced tremendous financial growth, as well as increases in both employee population and geographic reach. The companyās annual revenue has jumped more than 70% during Mr. Collisā tenure as CEO. Its number of employees has risen 65%. And today, AmerisourceBergenās presence extends to offices in more than 50 countries worldwide.
Looking beyond the numbers, though, Mr. Collis has forged a clear path for extending AmerisourceBergenās ability to shape healthier futures for all its stakeholders. Today, the company serves as part of the backbone for healthcare delivery in the United States, providing daily distribution of pharmaceutical products to tens of thousands of healthcare providers. Through its solutions and technologies, AmerisourceBergen continues to enhance access to community-based care. And through the works of the AmerisourceBergen Foundationāspearheaded by Mr. Collis in 2014āpurposeful organizations around the world are able to put greater focus toward expanding access to quality healthcare and creating educational opportunities that strengthen communities.
Itās no wonder, then, that the Wall Street Journal named Mr. Collis as the best performing chief executive in the Philadelphia region for 2015 and that AmerisourceBergen earned the No. 1 position on the 2016 Barronās 500.
An avid supporter of charities, Mr. Collis is a founding vice chairman and active participant with the American Cancer Societyās CEOs Against Cancer ā Pennsylvania chapter. 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 AmerisourceBergenās board of directors, he is a board member for the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers.