A top executive at CVS Health has left the company.
Stephen J. Gold, the company’s chief information officer, resigned to “pursue professional opportunities outside of CVS Health,’’ Mike DeAngelis, a CVS spokesman, confirmed in an e-mail Thursday. His resignation was not related to CVS’s recently announced plans to purchase health insurer Aetna, DeAngelis said.
Gold, appointed as CIO in 2012, helped oversee the creation of an innovation lab in Boston that included developing digital tools, such as sending messages to patients about prescription refills, according to a profile about published last March in The Wall Street Journal.
The Woonsocket-based pharmacy giant announced Dec. 2nd that it plans to buy Aetna for $69 billion.
CVS Health’s chief executive officer, Larry J. Merlo, said during an interview Tuesday that “there won’t be tremendous amounts of job losses’’ as a result of the merger.
CVS employs about 8,000 people in Rhode Island, including 5,300 at its headquarters.
If approved by federal regulators, the deal is expected to close in the second half of 2018.
