Paula A Price

Price was most recently EVP and CFO at Macy's Inc, leaving the role effective May 31. and currently remains an advisor to the firm. She is a visiting executive for Harvard Business School since 2018 and prior to that, she was EVP and CFO at Ahold USA, chief accounting officer, controller, and SVP of CVS Caremark Corp. From 2002-2005 she held senior positions at JP Morgan Chase & Co. She had also held financial positions with Prudential Financial Inc., Kraft Foods Inc., Sears, Roebuck & Co., and Arthur Andersen LLP. Paula has been the chief financial officer of Macy’s, Inc., an omni-channel retailer of merchandise, including apparel and accessories, cosmetics and other goods, since July 2018. From 2014 to 2018, Paula was a full-time senior lecturer at Harvard Business School in the Accounting and Management Unit. Prior to joining the faculty of Harvard Business School in 2014, she was executive vice president and chief financial officer of Ahold USA, a retailer that operates more than 700 supermarkets in the United States under the Stop & Shop, Giant and Martin’s names, as well as the Peapod online grocery delivery service. At Ahold USA, Paula was responsible for finance and accounting, strategic planning, real estate development and construction, and information technology. Prior to joining Ahold in 2009 as chief financial officer of Stop & Shop/Giant Landover, Paula was senior vice president, controller and chief accounting officer at CVS Caremark. Earlier in her career, she was chief financial officer of the Institutional Trust Services division of JPMorgan Chase and also held senior management positions at Prudential Insurance Co. of America, Diageo and Kraft Foods. A certified public accountant, she began her career at Arthur Andersen & Co. Paula previously served on the board of directors of Dollar General Corporation from August 2014 to May 2018 and Western Digital Corporation from July 2014 to February 2019. Paula earned her MBA in Finance and Strategy from the University of Chicago and her BSc in Accountancy from DePaul University.