Board Member

Tracey T. Travis

Tracey T. Travis

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Estée Lauder Companies

Tracey T. Travis is executive vice president and chief financial officer at the Estée Lauder Companies, where she is responsible for global finance, accounting, investor relations, information technology, and strategy and new business development. She coleads the Global Value Council and is a member of the Executive Leadership Team and the Investment Development Committee.

Before joining Estée Lauder in 2012, she was senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer at Ralph Lauren Corporation and also held financial and information technology leadership roles at Limited Brands, American National Can, and PepsiCo/Pepsi Bottling Group. She began her career at General Motors as an engineer.

Travis currently serves as a director on the boards of Accenture PLC and Meta Platforms Inc. (formerly Facebook). She has been recognized by Treasury and Risk magazine as one of the top twenty-five women in finance and one of the one hundred most influential people in finance, has been honored with a Best CFO award by Institutional Investor magazine, and was named one of the top one hundred African Americans in corporate America as well as one of the most powerful women in corporate America by Black Enterprise magazine. In 2019, she was honored with an Achiever Award by Cosmetic Executive Women.

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