Carmine J. Villani Elected Corporate VP And Chief Information Officer.SAN FRANCISCO--(BW HealthWire)--Feb. 3, 1997--McKesson Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :MCK MCK McKinsey & Company (consulting firm) MCK Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (Quebec) MCK Mon Colle Knights (children's TV show) MCK Mirror Classes Kit MCK Maintenance Check ) announced today that Carmine carmine /car·mine/ (kahr´min) a red coloring matter used as a histologic stain. indigo carmine indigotindisulfonate sodium. car·mine n. J. Villani has been elected a corporate VP and chief information officer. Villani, who joined McKesson in May 1992, was promoted to VP, Information Technology, in 1994, with responsibility for system strategy, application development and application support functions. Prior to joining McKesson, Villani had spent 27 years with IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) where he had been responsible for developing and implementing a wide range of hardware and software business solutions. When he left IBM, he was director, I/S I/S Information Systems I/S Income Statement Investment Management, with responsibility for IBM's total U.S. investment in marketing and services. Mark A. Pulido, McKesson's president and COO, said: "Carmine's promotion recognizes the strategic importance of information technology to the growth of our business units. These technological innovations have been and will continue to be a competitive edge in the health care marketplace and help McKesson become the leader in health care supply management solutions." "Under Carmine's leadership, information services See Information Systems. has worked much closer with management in our business units to support technological solutions for their customers' needs. I am pleased that the Board has recognized Carmine's contributions with this well-earned promotion." Through McKesson's U.S. Health Care business, its Canadian subsidiary, Medis Health and Pharmaceutical Services, and its minority interest in Mexico's Nadro, S.A., McKesson is the largest distributor of pharmaceutical and health care products in North America. The company also owns McKesson Water Products, one of the nation's largest distributors of bottled drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. . McKesson news releases are available at no charge through McKesson's NewsOnDemand fax service. To immediately receive an index of available releases, call 800/344-6495 and press 2. On the Internet, visit us on the World Wide Web at: http://www.mckesson.com . CONTACT: McKesson Corp., San Francisco Joan Kampe O'Connor, 415/983-8416 |
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