McKesson
CEF Lead Executives
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ROBERT TER KUILE
Chief Sustainability Officer
Robert serves as the CSO in the Global Impact Organization for McKesson, where he joined in 2022. He is responsible for defining and executing McKesson’s global sustainability strategies, goals, and initiatives, across all McKesson Business Units. Before joining McKesson, Robert served as the Global Director of Environmental Affairs for more than five years with Amazon, the VP of Sustainability for Fossil Group, and spent 14 years in a variety of positions with PepsiCo, enabling their environmental and sustainability platforms. He also serves as the Chairman of the Board for WRAP Americas, on the Executive Committee for the Collaborative for Healthcare Action to Reduce MedTech Emissions (CHARME), and on the Steering Committee for the National Academies of Medicines Climate Action Collaborative. Robert 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.
Latest Sustainability Reporting
(July 2026)
Highlights
- In FY26, reduced Scope 1 and 2 market-based emissions by 36% (FY20 baseline).
- Approximately 32% of electricity used for the company’s buildings came from renewable energy in FY26.
- Achieved goal of having 70% of suppliers (by spending on purchased goods and services) set SBTi-approved GHG reduction targets.
- In FY26, removed 2.9 million packs from the supply chain across 49 products by shifting from smaller pack sizes to large bulk formats.
- 17 of the company’s buildings have achieved Green Building Standard certifications.
- In FY26, employees volunteered nearly 40,000 hours with over 700 charities across the U.S. and Canada.
- Matched over $2.1 million in employee donations to more than 2,200 charities in FY26.
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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