Tousignant was named Senior Vice President, Global Chief Financial Officer in 2017, leading a global team responsible for all of Beam Suntory’s financial activities. Reporting Directly to the CEO, he serves on the company’s Executive Leadership Team.
Tousignant joined Beam Suntory in 2014 as Vice President of Finance – Global Supply Chain, providing financial planning and analysis and controllership support for the company’s Global Supply Chain function, and leading a team of more than 100. In 2016, he was named Regional CFO of the Americas region, supporting Beam Suntory’s commercial activities generating revenues of $1.7bn across the Americas, led by the U.S., the company’s largest market. Since 2017, in addition to finance, Tousignant has provided strategic leadership and oversight to the company’s Global Strategy and Corporate Development team, as well as Information Technology and Global S&OP.
Prior to Beam Suntory, Tousignant spent 15 years at Avon Products, where he gained a depth of international experience in roles of increasing responsibility, including CFO Japan, Vice President – Finance, Europe, Middle East & Africa, and Vice President Finance and Online, North America. He ultimately served as Group Vice President, leading a global transformation project to contemporize the Avon service model.
Tousignant holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from the Université du Quebec a Montreal, and an M.B.A. in Management from the University of Sherbrooke. He and his wife, Julie, have three children.