2023 Grocery Industry Icons & Innovators
Irina Pelphrey
VP, Health & Managed Care
Albertsons Companies
Irina Pelphrey is the Vice President of Health and Managed Care at Albertsons Companies, Inc., a national grocer represented by store banners such as Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Shaw’s, Jewel-Osco, Acme, Tom Thumb and more. In this role, Irina leads Sincerely Health, Albertsons Companies’ health and wellness engagement platform and oversees healthcare payer relationships across pharmacy and food is medicine. Irina’s career is centered on passion for healthcare at retail, solving complex customer problems and consistently delivering financial results. Prior to joining Albertsons, Irina held a variety of leadership roles Walmart’s Health & Wellness division. Irina gets excited about use of analytics and data to make right customer decisions and the role food, medication therapy and behavior change can play in prevention and treatment of chronic disease.
Irina holds BA degree from American Public University and MBA degree from the Kellogg Business School at Northwestern University.