Dawn Lepore is the former CEO and chairman of the board of drugstore.com, a leading online retailer of health, beauty, and wellness products, which she led from 2004 until its acquisition by Walgreens in 2011. Dawn repositioned drugstore.com to focus on the over-the-counter, beauty, and vision businesses and led the company to record revenues. Prior to joining drugstore.com, Lepore spent more than 21 years at The Charles Schwab Company in a variety of leadership roles, including launching and then building Schwab’s highly successful e-commerce business. In her tenure there, she was vice chairman of technology, CIO, and held strategic positions in operations, administration, business strategy and as an active trader.
Lepore has been recognized professionally by multiple industry groups, including Fortune Magazine four times as one of the “50 Most Powerful Women in American Business,” the National Organization for Women at their Aiming High Conference, one of InformationWeek’s “Chiefs of the Year,” and Future Banker Magazine as “Ten Hottest CIOs.”