Tory Burch is the Executive Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of Tory Burch LLC, an American lifestyle brand.

Tory launched the company in 2004 with a small boutique on Elizabeth Street in New York City as well as an ecommerce site. The brand has since grown into a global business with more than 250 boutiques from New York to Paris and Shanghai.

In 2015, she launched Tory Sport, a collection of performance activewear that balances cutting-edge functionality with classic design.

Social responsibility was structurally built into Tory’s business plan and has been a part of the company from its inception. In 2009, she launched the Tory Burch Foundation to advance women’s empowerment and entrepreneurship in the United States by providing access to capital, education and digital resources, as well as a Fellowship program. To date, over $40M in loans have been distributed to over 2,000 women entrepreneurs through the Foundation’s Capital Program powered by Bank of America.

Tory also serves on several boards including the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, the Barnes Foundation and the Jay H. Baker Retailing Center at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. In addition, she is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations as well as a board member at the Riverdale Country School.

Tory has been recognized with numerous awards and honors, including the CFDA for Accessory Designer of the Year, Forbes’s Most Powerful Women in the World and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation’s Sandra Taub Humanitarian Award. Her first book, Tory Burch In Color (Abrams, 2014), was a New York Times Best Seller.

A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in art history, Tory lives in New York City with her husband and three sons.