Chawla to fill new Walgreens e-commerce post

DEERFIELD, Ill. Walgreens has named Sona Chawla to the new position of senior vp of e-commerce, effective July 1. Chawla joins Walgreens from Dell, where she was vp of global online business.

In her new position, Chawla will oversee a team dedicated to building the sales, service and customer experience of Walgreens.com, while driving store traffic through the Web site and growing online profitability.

Before joining Dell in 2006, Chawla worked at Wells Fargo & Company from 2000 to 2006. She started with Wells Fargo as senior vp of enterprise Internet services, was named evp of Web channel management in 2003 and evp of online sales, service and marketing in 2005.