Forbes July 8, 2019
Peter High

When Cigna closed its $67 billion acquisition of Express Scripts in December, less than a year after the companies agreed to combine, it marked the creation of a greater than $140 billion revenue healthcare colossus. How did the companies combine so quickly?

Among the change agents was the Chief Technology Officer of Express Scripts Phil Finucane. He has a killer combination of skills in his toolkit, having been an engineer and technology leader at digital native companies such as Zynga and Yahoo! while also working at another acquisitive behemoth, American Express, prior to Express Scripts. As such, he has an unusual ability to draw from the strengths of each environment.

Finucane spent much of his tenure at Express Scripts upgrading...

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