John Kotlarczyk, Jr. is the senior director of Corporate Social Responsibility and Waste Reduction for Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), the first global pharmacy-led, health and wellbeing enterprise, which employs more than 400,000 colleagues and operates in over 25 countries. He was appointed to this role in 2016 and is responsible for developing and leading the strategic direction for WBA’s worldwide waste, waste reduction, recycling, environmental sustainability and circular economy initiatives.

He is also responsible for developing innovative solutions to waste and recycling concerns at world-wide WBA sites, co-leading the WBA Plastics Task Force and working with both vendor & business partners to ensure the advancement of WBA’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), environmental and waste reduction initiatives.

With more than 30 years of environmental, sustainability, retail and healthcare compliance experience, John also held management positions with Walmart/Sam’s Club; Affiliated Computer Services (a Xerox Company); and the Catholic Healthcare Audit Network. He was also a contracted healthcare fraud investigator for both the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and a private insurance company.