Sona Chawla is senior vice president of e-commerce for Walgreens, headquartered in Deerfield, Ill.
Chawla joined Walgreens in her current position July 1, 2008. She oversees a team dedicated to building the sales, service and customer experience of Walgreens.com, while driving store traffic through the Web site and growing online profitability.
Chawla joined Walgreens from Dell, Inc., where she was vice president of global online business.
Before joining Dell in 2006, Chawla worked at Wells Fargo & Company from 2000 to 2006. She started with Wells Fargo as senior vice president of enterprise Internet services, was named executive vice president of Web channel management in 2003 and executive vice president of online sales, service and marketing in 2005.
Prior to her Wells Fargo career, Chawla spent 10 years with several consulting firms. She graduated from Wellesley (Mass.) College in 1990 with a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics and computer science, and earned a master of science degree in finance and strategy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management (Cambridge, Mass.) in 1994.