Marvin Richardson,
Chief Executive Officer
Marvin is a pharmacist and the CEO of Innovation with 37 years of pharmacy and healthcare experience focusing on C-Suite leadership and operational expertise. Prior to joining Innovation, Marvin was the co-founder and managing director of Capstone Consultants LLC, a pharmacy automation consulting company. He has also co-founded PrairieStone Pharmacies, a 33-store drug chain, and served as senior VP of pharmacy operations for Rite Aid.
Industry Leadership:
At a time when pharmacies are being called on to perform a wider range of patient care functions, Innovation provides high-volume automated fulfillment platforms that lower costs and free up valuable pharmacist and staff time for patient-facing responsibilities.
Rick is a seasoned finance executive who leads Innovation’s finance and accounting activities. He serves as a strategic partner to the CEO, while also focusing on capital investment and value creation. Before joining Innovation, Rick served as EVP and CFO for Fred’s Inc., and enjoyed 27 years in finance roles at the Walgreen Company.
Rick Hans,
Chief Financial Officer
Mary Reno,
Chairwoman Emeritus
Mary has over three decades of executive management experience in the pharmacy automation and health care arenas. She led Innovation through its introduction to the retail pharmacy industry to its current position as an industry leader, and now serves as a board member. Most recently, Mary was the recipient of a Drug Store News Top Women Career Achievement award for her service to the industry.
Tom Boyer
Chief Strategy Officer
Tom leads Innovation’s strategy initiatives internally and externally. With over 30 years of executive operations experience, Tom formulates, facilitates, and communicates company goals, and develops the plans and coordination with our customers and industry partners to advance Innovation’s
position of industry leadership. He has also been the driving force for building Innovation’s strategic partnership with Binghamton University’s Watson Institute for Systems Excellence (WISE).
Alecia directs Innovation’s Solutions Engineering organization, which is responsible for the technical execution and engineering of the PharmASSIST suite of products and services. Alecia is in her 20th year with Innovation and has led her teams in the application of a cross-functional, holistic, and scientific approach to architecting, developing, and sustaining progressive, innovative, and intelligent solutions.
Alecia Lashier
Executive Vice President,
Technology
To learn more about Innovation and their PharmASSIST High Volume Solutions,
visit innovat.com, email sales@innovat.com,
or call 607-352-2146.
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As a company, Innovation is aptly named — proud of its engineering roots, always striving to understand the pharmacy industry’s latest problems and offer up game-changing solutions. It’s a legacy that is ingrained in Innovation’s current leadership.
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Meet the Officers of Innovation
Phil Samples,
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Operations
Phil is a pharmacist and leads Innovation’s operations to improve customer experience and further scale the Innovation business. Phil has over 40 years of pharmacy management, clinical pharmacy, and pharmacy benefits management experience in the federal government and retail pharmacy sectors. He also served for 27 years in the United States Air Force (USAF), retiring with the rank of Colonel.