2021 — Present
Principal
The BGJ Group
Advises clients across the supermarket, drug, dollar, and mass retail channels on operations, merchandising, strategy, and product development.
Board Advisors
Mark Panzer
Board Advisor
Boulder, Colorado
Mark Panzer is a Board Advisor to Valore Health and a former Chairman of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (2018–2019). His retail career began at Osco Drug more than 40 years ago and grew through regional sales, marketing, and operations leadership at American Drug Stores and Albertsons. He later served as Executive Vice President and then Senior Executive Vice President of Store Operations and Chief Marketing Officer at Rite Aid, and as President and CEO of Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy. From 2015 to 2020 he led Pharmacy, Health & Wellness at Albertsons Companies, overseeing roughly 1,760 pharmacies across 34 states and expanding pharmacist clinical services, specialty pharmacy, and in-store health clinics. He has been recognized as DSN Pharmacy Innovator of the Year (2018), MMR Health & Wellness Merchant of the Year (2016), and DSN Operations Executive of the Year (2003).
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- Retail pharmacy strategy and operations at national scale
- Pharmacy, health and wellness, and clinical-service expansion
- Merchandising, marketing, and consumer health
- Integrative pharmacy and specialty services
- Industry leadership and trade association governance
Education
- MBA, Finance, Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University Chicago
Experience
2015 — 2020
Senior Vice President, Pharmacy, Health & Wellness
Albertsons Companies
Led one of the nation's largest retail pharmacy operations, expanding pharmacist scope of practice, specialty pharmacy, and in-store clinics; role later expanded to General Merchandise and Health & Beauty.
2018 — 2019
Chairman
National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS)
Chaired the national trade association representing chain pharmacies and served on its board of directors.
2008 — 2015
President & Chief Executive Officer
Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy
Led an integrative pharmacy chain combining conventional pharmacy with natural health and wellness offerings.
2001 — 2008
SEVP, Store Operations & Chief Marketing Officer
Rite Aid Corporation
Directed store operations and later company-wide marketing for a national drugstore chain.
Earlier career
SVP, Sales & Marketing
Osco Drug / American Drug Stores / Albertsons
Progressed from store and district leadership to senior sales, marketing, and merchandising roles through the American Stores–Albertsons merger.