Cynthia Jamison, serves on the Board of Directors of Tractor Supply Company (NASDAQ:TSCO), a position she has held since 2002, where she is Chairman of the Board, after serving as Lead Director, and Chair of the Audit, Compensation & Corporate Governance Committees. Since 2013, she also serves on the Office Depot Board (NASDAQ: ODP) where she Chairs the Audit Committee and is a member of the Compensation committee. Ms Jamison was elected to serve on the Darden Restaurants Board (NYSE: DRI) in October 2014 as part of a complete Board replacement slate through Starboard Value’s proxy fight; there, she serves as Chair of the Audit Committee as well as serving on the Compensation Committee. In May of 2015 she joined the BigLots, Inc (NYSE: BIG) Board where she sits on the Capital Allocation and Compensation Committees and Chairs the Nominating and Governance Committee. Her previous Board roles includes: Horizon Organic Holdings, Cellu Tissue, Caribe Media and B&G Foods.

Prior to her full-time Board service, Cynthia had an executive career as a “Crisis CFO”. In that capacity, she served as a partner with Tatum, LLP from June 1999 through May 2009. She has been the Chief Financial Officer or Chief Operating Officer of several publicly and privately held companies including eMac, Inc, a joint venture between McDonald’s Corporation and KKR & Co. L.P., and Cosi, Inc. (NASDAQ:COSI), the casual dining chain, SurePayroll, a payroll processing firm, and and Illinois Superconductor, a radio frequency cellular technology company. From 2006 on, Cindie was in a Managing Partner role within Tatum, and served in several additional capacities, including as Managing Partner of the CFO Services practice where she led 300+ CFO partners and sat on the firm’s Operating Committee. From 2009 until her retirement in 2012 she served as the Chief Financial Officer of AquaSpy, Inc., an Australian environmentally responsible irrigation company. She still serves on that (private) board and remains a personal investor in the company. Prior to her CFO roles, she held executive positions of increasing responsibility at Arthur Andersen, Kraft General Foods, Hewitt Associates , Allied Domecq (Dunkin’ Donuts/Baskin Robbins) and Chart House Enterprises.

She is a frequent keynote speaker on CFO and Boardroom topics, and quoted as a financial/economic expert in Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, CFO Magazine, Agenda, Board Member and the Economist. She is also an NACD Board Leadership Fellow and was awarded the “Top 100 Director” honor in 2017.