George Paz (1955 – October 23, 2022)[1] was the chairman, and former CEO, of Express Scripts,[2] a Fortune 100 company, and the largest pharmacy benefit management (PBM) organization in the US.
Career
Paz, the grandson of Mexican immigrants, earned a bachelor's degree in business administration and accounting at the University of Missouri - St. Louis[3] in 1982[1] and was a certified public accountant.[4]
Before working at Express Scripts, Paz was a partner with Coopers & Lybrand (today known as PwC) accounting firm.[5]
From 1993 to 1995, Paz was executive vice president and chief financial officer for Life Partners Group.[6][7] Paz joined Express Scripts in January 1998 as chief financial officer when the company had annual revenue of about $1.2 billion.[4][8] In April 2005, Paz was named CEO of Express Scripts and the company had revenue of $15 billion.[9][4] In 2008, Paz joined the board of directors of Honeywell, Inc.[6][10]
In 2012, Paz was appointed to a three-year term on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.[6] In December 2014, Paz was named chairman of the board of directors at the bank.[11]
In September 2015, Express Scripts announced that Paz would retire in May 2016 and become non-executive chairman.[9][12][13][14] He was succeeded as CEO by Tim Wentworth, who was previously president of the company.[13][14]
