George Paz

George Paz (1955 – October 23, 2022) was the chairman, and former CEO, of Express Scripts, a Fortune 100 company, and the largest pharmacy benefit management (PBM) organization in the US.

Career Paz, the grandson of Mexican immigrants, earned a bachelor's degree in business administration and accounting at the University of Missouri - St. Louis in 1982

Before working at Express Scripts, Paz was a partner with Coopers & Lybrand (today known as PwC) accounting firm.

From 1993 to 1995, Paz was executive vice president and chief financial officer for Life Partners Group. Paz joined Express Scripts in January 1998 as chief financial officer when the company had annual revenue of about $1.2 billion. In April 2005, Paz was named CEO of Express Scripts and the company had revenue of $15 billion.

From July 2009 to June 2019, he served as a trustee at Washington University in St. Louis.

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.

Paz died on October 23, 2022.