Stephanie Ferris

About

Stephanie graduated from Miami in 1995 with a degree in accountancy. She is a global public company CFO and COO with 20+ years of proven people and change leadership. She is a business leader with general management experience and expertise in strategy formulation and execution, acquisitions, spin-offs and IPOs, and technology often in the context of significant transformation.

Stephanie Ferris served as chief operating officer of FIS (NYSE: FIS), a Fortune 500 company that holds leadership positions in payment processing, financial software, and banking solutions. She became president of FIS in February 2022.

As COO, she led a global team that drove the FIS corporate strategy, mergers, and acquisitions, technology, marketing, and communications, as well as portfolio analytics and optimization. In addition, Ferris was responsible for the successful integration of Worldpay from FIS, the company’s global delivery organization, and partner and vendor optimization.

She previously was chief financial officer of Worldpay, Inc., which was acquired by FIS in July 2019. Worldpay, Inc. was formed in 2018 when Cincinnati-based Vantiv, Inc. acquired Worldpay Group plc, a London-based leader in global eCommerce and technology-led payment solutions.

As CFO of Worldpay, Ferris was responsible for leading the global public company's finance department and its overall financial strategy. Her responsibilities included overseeing accounting, financial planning and analysis, treasury, mergers and acquisitions, and investor relations.

Earlier in her career, Ferris was CFO of the payments processing division of Fifth Third Bancorp, which was later spun out and became Vantiv. She also held multiple progressive financial leadership roles at Fifth Third, after beginning her career in public accounting at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Ferris is a certified public accountant and graduate of Miami University.

Stephanie joined the Board of Directors of lululemon athletica, inc in July of 2019. She serves on the Company’s audit committee. She is also a 2019 YWCA Career Women of Achievement honoree; a 2018 PaymentsSource Most Influential Women in Payments winner; and a 2016 Stevie Awards for Women in Business silver honoree (Female Executive of the Year – Business Services – More Than 2,500 Employees – Services Industries).