Sri Ganapathy is an operationally focused Chief Financial Officer with two decades of experience across finance, operations, and enterprise transformation.

As CFO of tarte cosmetics, he leads the company’s global financial and operational strategy across an international distribution footprint and a rapidly evolving multi-channel environment. He brings a systems-driven approach to automation and advanced analytics that improves the speed, accuracy, and quality of decision-making in complex consumer businesses.

He guides a multi-year AI-enabled modernization spanning forecasting, supply chain planning, ERP processes, and retail and marketing analytics. This includes designing a unified operating stack that integrates commerce, marketing, supply chain, data, ERP, and financial systems, while in parallel implementing an AI-driven decision layer that synthesizes signals from fragmented enterprise systems to surface context, identify patterns, and accelerate enterprise action. His work focuses on building the long-term infrastructure for real-time forecasting and cohesive, data-driven operations, creating the foundation for faster and more integrated financial and operational execution.

Before joining tarte, Sri held finance leadership roles at Toys “R” Us, overseeing capital structure, treasury, and major financing and restructuring initiatives. Earlier in his career, he worked at General Motors and Plug Power in engineering and systems integration roles. This experience informs his operator mindset and cross-functional approach as a modern CFO.

Outside of his corporate work, Sri serves as Treasurer and Board Member of a nonprofit school in New York City. He holds an MBA from Cornell University and a Master’s in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University.