Mike Kaufmann Group President, Healthcare Supply Chain Services – Medical

Michael Kaufmann is a group president of the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain segment of Cardinal Health, a $70 billion business that provides logistics services to pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributes approximately one-third of all medicine prescribed in the U.S. to hospitals, retail pharmacies and other providers of care. Kaufmann began his career at Cardinal Health in 1990 and served as controller for one of its drug distribution businesses. For nearly 20 years, he has held senior operational, sales and finance roles, primarily within Cardinal Health’s pharmaceutical business. He served as director of sales and then vice president and general manager of the company’s pharmaceutical repackaging operation, before being promoted to senior vice president of retail sales and marketing for Pharmaceutical Distribution. He has since held positions of increasing responsibility, including executive vice president of sales, marketing and procurement. During that time, Kaufmann was instrumental in strengthening the financial performance of the company’s pharmaceutical distribution business by leading its transition to a fee-based service model. More recently, he returned to his roots in finance as the chief financial officer of Healthcare Supply Chain Services (HSCS), where he had responsibility for both the Pharmaceutical and Medical segments’ finances. In 2007 he was promoted to group president for the HSCS-Medical segment, an $8 billion business that provides medical, surgical and laboratory products to hospitals, surgery centers, diagnostic labs, physician’s offices and other sites of care. After moving the business from Chicago to Dublin, Ohio, and initiating a successful turnaround, Kaufmann was named group president of HSCS-Pharmaceutical in March 2008. Prior to Cardinal Health, Kaufmann had a successful career in audit and consulting with one of the nation’s largest public accounting firms. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio.