Alex Pappalardi

Alex Pappalardi is the current VP of Finance at CUUP. Alex has over 9 years of experience in finance and has held various positions at companies such as The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., Vince, and Ralph Lauren.

In Alex's most recent role at The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., they served as the Director of Global Finance and Strategy. In this role, Alex was responsible for overseeing the finance and strategy for 6 regions, 50 affiliates, and all channels of operations including physical stores, e-commerce, wholesale, and travel retail. Alex was also responsible for leading the division through a restructuring caused by stagnating growth and focused on strategic reconfiguration.

Under Alex's leadership, the division saw a 10% improvement in ROAS through a sharpened focus of spend allocation in categories, channels, and markets. Additionally, Alex partnered with Brand Marketing to reconfigure new product launch strategy with improved costing and pricing practices which led to a 5 percentage point improvement in new product launch margins and a 10% reduction in inventory.

Prior to their role at The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., Alex served as the Sr. Manager of Finance at Vince and FP&A Manager at Ralph Lauren. In these roles, Alex was responsible for various finance functions such as budgeting, forecasting, and cost analysis.

Alex has a Bachelor's degree in Finance from Northeastern University.

Alex Pappalardi attended Fordham University for both their undergraduate and graduate degrees. Alex earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics & Accounting and then went on to complete their Master of Business Administration in Finance.

Their manager is Kearnon O'Molony, Founder. They work with Pascale Gueracague - Chief Design Officer, Caitlin Lyons - Director, Business Analytics, and Kristin Sebelle - SVP, Digital.