George Paz


George Paz is the chairman, and former CEO, of Express Scripts, a Fortune 100 company, and the largest pharmacy benefit management organization in the US.

Career

Paz studied accounting at the University of Missouri - St. Louis and is a certified public accountant.
From 1993 to 1995, Paz served as executive vice president and chief financial officer for Life Partners Group. Paz joined Express Scripts in January 1998 as Chief Financial Officer. In April 2005, Paz was named CEO of Express Scripts. In 2008, Paz began serving on the board of directors of Honeywell, Inc.
In 2012, Paz was appointed to a three-year term on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. In December 2014, Paz was named chairman of the board of directors at the bank.
In September 2015, Express Scripts announced that Paz would retire in May 2016 and become non-executive chairman. He was succeeded as CEO by Tim Wentworth, who was previously president of the company.
In February 2016, Paz was appointed to the board of directors of Prudential Financial.