Don Tracy, Vice President of Finance & Chief Financial Officer
Don Tracy has served as Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer of MGP since November 2009. Mr. Tracy’s business career spans over 30 years, more than half of which has been spent in senior level financial and executive management positions. From 2006 until joining MGP, he served as Chief Financial Officer at Emery Oleochemicals, a global chemical manufacturer, and was based in Cincinnati.
Prior to his position at Emery Oleochemicals, Mr. Tracy served as Chief Financial Officer at Briggs Industries, a worldwide manufacturer and distributor of kitchen and bath fixtures, at the company’s U.S. headquarters in Charleston, South Carolina, from 2005 to 2007. Before that, he spent four years with the Tenaris Corp., a global producer of steel tubes, where he began as Director of Financial Projects and subsequently was promoted to Chief Financial Officer of Tenaris, North America.
Mr. Tracy’s previous experience included serving as Senior Vice President of the process improvement group of National City Corporation, Cleveland, from 1999 to 2001; Senior Manager of the strategic services unit at A.T. Kearney, Inc. in 1998; Senior Manager of performance improvement management consulting for Ernst &Young Consulting, for three years; and various positions with the Procter & Gamble Company from 1983 to 1993. These included assignments as Department Manager of Finance and Investments in Procter & Gamble’s treasury division, and periods as Chief Financial Officer of Procter & Gamble Peru, controller of Procter & Gamble Commercial Company, and a participant in the company’s management development program. From 1979 to 1981, he served as an Auditor with Deloitte & Touche.
Mr. Tracy earned a bachelor of science degree in accounting in 1979 at the University of Detroit, where he was the recipient of the Wall Street Journal award as the top graduating business school student. He received a master’s degree in business administration with dual specializations in business economics and finance from the University of Chicago in 1983.