Walgreens Boots Alliance chief legal officer departs for Hertz Global Holdings

DEERFIELD, Ill. – Walgreens Boots Alliance on Friday announced that Thomas Sabatino Jr., EVP, global chief legal and administrative officer, will be leaving the company to join Hertz Global Holdings as senior EVP, chief administrative officer and general counsel, effective Feb. 9.  

 

Sabatino will remain in his current role with Walgreens Boots Alliance through the end of January to ensure a smooth transition of his current responsibilities. The company expects to announce his successor at that time.  

 

Joining Walgreens as EVP, general counsel and corporate secretary in 2011, and serving as chief administrative officer since 2014, Sabatino led and oversaw the company’s merger and integration efforts with Alliance Boots. 

 

“In addition to building a world-class legal organization as general counsel and working closely with the board of directors through this pivotal period for the company, Tom played a vital role in helping us to close the merger before the end of 2014 and in overseeing the integration of our two companies over the course of the past year,” stated Jim Skinner, Walgreens Boots Alliance executive chairman. “We congratulate Tom on his new role at Hertz, thank him for his service and wish him the very best.” 

 

“It has been a privilege to serve Walgreens during this transitional period, to work with such a top-notch organization and to lead the integration of these two iconic companies,” Sabatino said. “As I look forward to a new, exciting opportunity at Hertz, I have the utmost confidence in the Walgreens Boots Alliance team, the global force for pharmacy, wellbeing and beauty we have built and the future of this great company.”