Biography | David Joyner — The January He Came Back to Run Caremark

One CVS Drive sits in Highland Corporate Park on the Woonsocket side of the Rhode Island–Massachusetts line.

The address is the parent company's official headquarters, and it is also where CVS Caremark, the pharmacy-benefit manager, is based.

In January 2023 J. David Joyner returned to that campus as executive vice president of CVS Health and president of Pharmacy Services.

The 18 October 2024 Form 8-K states the title and the start date in those words.

He had left the company around 2020 after the sales-and-marketing years. The gap is not a rumor; the same filing lists the outside advisory work he did in between.

Caremark was the business he knew. Company materials at the time put the PBM at roughly 90 million members across Caremark, CVS Specialty, and related units.

The January 2023 return is the hinge. Twenty months later the same board that had brought him back made him chief executive.

A visitor to One CVS Drive will find a suburban office park, not a storefront. The first CVS drugstore was in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1963; the corporate campus is a later Woonsocket choice.

The pin is the headquarters building at 1 CVS Drive, confirmed on the company's contact page and on the 2024 8-K address block.

Joyner was living the job as an operator of the PBM here, not yet as CEO of the whole firm.

That distinction matters on this campus, because the next memory on the same drive is the October morning the titles changed.

Photo: Teddythetank, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (CVS Pharmacy storefront; the headquarters campus itself is a private office park without a freely licensed exterior on Commons)