Mike Blaire

Mike Blaire has been involved in retail pharmacy for literally his entire life, as he started working in a pharmacy when he was only 11 years old. He owned several stores in New York in the early 1980s, and later worked for Walgreen’s in the 90s when he first moved to Arizona. In 2001, Mike co-founded Diamonback Drugs in Scottsdale, Arizona, a business he successfully grew four-fold with two private equity sponsors during his tenure as President and Chief Executitve Officer.

Mike’s affiliations to the pharmacy profession include the following positions of leadership: Former Treasurer and current Chairman of the Political Action Committee of the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists, Member of the National Community Pharmacy Association, Member of the American Pharmacists Association, Member and former Chairman of the PAC for the Arizona Pharmacy Alliance.

Born and raised in New York, Blaire graduated from St. Johns University College of Pharmacy in 1983.