McKesson
CEF Lead Executives
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ROBERT TER KUILE
VP, of Environmental Responsibility
Robert is responsible for defining and executing McKesson’s environmental strategies, goals, and initiatives. He joined McKesson in August 2022. For the past 25 years, Robert has worked in both the public and private sectors in various ESG roles. Before joining McKesson, Robert served as the Global Director of Environmental Affairs with Amazon for over five years. Prior to Amazon, Robert served as the VP of Sustainability for Fossil Group and spent 14 years in a variety of positions with PepsiCo, enabling their environmental and ESG platforms. Robert is on the Penn State Sustainability Advisory Board and the Board of Directors for Seattle Youth for Christ. He has authored and implemented global policies on Land Use, Forestry Stewardship, and various commodities, is the co-inventor of the “Fast Life Cycle Analysis” process in collaboration with Columbia University’s Earth Institute. He resides in Franklin, TN with his wife, Christina, and two daughters, Cora and Wren.
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NIKI SHAH
Vice President, Social Innovation
Niki is an experienced healthcare executive with a diverse and rich skill set, with a reputation of getting things done while being innovative and transformative. Background and projects vary from retail to consulting to behavioral health and digital to community based and underserved patients. Niki's philosophy is to be data oriented, outcomes driven but relationship centered. Niki has experience in Operations, Strategy, Business Development, Program Development and Evaluation, Ideation & Innovation and creating plans from complex ideas. Niki’s most recent role was at Baylor Scott and White System VP of Community Health. She has been leading this space since 2011. In addition to this role, she has also simultaneously led initiatives for the organization in the Behavioral Health, Digital Health and Transforming Primary Care.
Niki is passionate about building impactful & innovative programs to serve the most vulnerable patients, members and communities. She loves finding ways to create new partnerships developing catalysts to improve quality of life, equity and health for all.
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DANIELLE RICKETTS
Program Manager, Sustainability
Danielle Ricketts is a reputation management leader with 15 years of progressive communications, community investment and sustainability experience. In her current role, she is involved in the development of a new enterprise-wide strategy and approach to Sustainability & ESG issues for McKesson. Danielle has held a variety of communications and corporate responsibility roles in hospitality, retail, data marketing, banking and healthcare for Fortune 500 organizations. Previously in her role at Alliance Data, she helped formalize the sustainability communications and reporting strategy, producing award-winning sustainability reports and building impactful programs and campaigns with nonprofit partners including Habitat for Humanity and American Forests. Danielle also currently serves on the foundation board for My Possibilities. Danielle earned her B.A. degree in Journalism and Public Relations from the University of North Texas, and lives in Texas with her husband Bryan, their two children Lillian and Clara and their two adorable pups, Stella and Stevie Nix.
Sustainability Goals
Sustainability Goals
Focus Areas to Drive Environmental Stewardship Across the Enterprise
- Increase LED lighting to lessen our footprint (achieved an estimated average reduction of 23% in its electricity use at participating buildings due to LED installations across 30 locations as of 2021)
- Monitor and benchmark energy use
- Bring in renewable energy to move toward the future
- Optimize buildings with integrated technology and real-time analytics
- Work toward environmental certifications as we grow
- Transportation: more efficiency, less impact
- Energy reduction for outsourced fleets
- Energy reduction for our in-house fleet
- Redistribution Center model
- Employee travel and commuting
Latest Sustainability Reporting
(June 2023)
Highlights
- In December 2022, McKesson’s near-term climate change targets received approval from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).
- Signed a Virtual Power Purchase Agreement to buy 15MW of renewable energy associated with a solar project in Texas expected to be operational in 2024.
- Optimized distribution routes in FY23, reducing fuel consumption by 9.2% (263,000 gallons) while increasing package delivery by 4.4%.
- Is shifting from cardboard to renewable shipping containers, which is estimated to eliminate nearly 60 million cardboard boxes annually.
- Through its paperless invoicing pilot, is reducing waste and printing by 51,000 sheets of paper each day. Its invoice reduction in 2023 also reduced 2.5 million sheets (116 tons of paper) by reducing multiple invoice copies.
- Women made up 62%, and people of color made up 47%, of overall workforce. Women made up 42% of McKesson leadership, and people of color made up 26%.
- Received distinction as one of “America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity” and one of “America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women” by Newsweek in 2023.
Recent News
2023
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Framework (The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers (IFPW)) — IFPW launched an ESG framework and toolkit to serve as a resource for pharmaceutical wholesalers and distributors. The framework is intended to create global alignment and consistency across the pharmaceutical sector regarding how to effectively communicate and report on the impact of ESG initiatives to advance the supply chain. Guidance includes: addressing carbon emissions, energy use, and climate change; environmental stewardship through waste management, packaging design, and regulatory compliance; protecting access to medicine and advancing global equity; human capital management through diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives; and ethics compliance and human rights throughout the supply chain. The framework leverages insights from a wide range of healthcare organizations, including CEF member McKesson. (Feb 2023)
2021
32 companies that have prioritized their workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
(e.g., by establishing safety practices, disclosing demographic details to drive racial equity, worker benefits)
have outperformed companies on the Russell 1000 by 8.6%, according to a JUST Capital
ranking of companies “leading for their workers” by industry. CEF members
BlackRock, Chevron, Comcast, Dow, Ford, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Lockheed Martin, McKesson,
and Procter & Gamble are among the 32 companies featured. (Sept 2021)
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