Sophie Neary is Group Director for Facebook UK & Ireland. Sophie joined Facebook in August 2020 from Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), where she was the Managing Director of eCommerce and Digital Retail Transformation and member of the executive committee for Boots, the UK’s largest health, beauty and wellbeing retailer.
Sophie has over 25 years of leadership experience spanning Marketing, E-Commerce, Strategy and Digital Transformation roles for companies including; Reuters, Netscape/Sun Microsystems, Tesco, Walmart, Visa, Sony and WBA. Her startup experience includes JCP, sold to Sun Microsystems 2000 and aggregator BeatThatQuote.com, acquired by Google in 2011.
Sophie is a passionate advocator and champion of women’s health in the workplace and regularly speaks about embracing a life outside the traditional expectations of society.