Sara Mathew is the former chair and CEO of Dun & Bradstreet (D&B). She joined D&B in August 2001 as CFO, after 18 years at Procter and Gamble. At D&B, she served as CFO and SVP of International, CFO and president of US business, and president and COO. She became CEO in January 2010, and chair of the board in July of that year, remaining in that position until her retirement in 2013. Mathew is chair of Freddie Mac and a director of State Street, Reckitt Benckiser, and NextGen SPAC. Mathew was named among Financial Times magazine’s 50 Women at the Top (2013), as an S&P500 Top Value Creator by Chief Executive (2014), to NACD’s Directorship 100 (2015), and as FWA’s Woman of the Year (2017). She received Ascend/Deloitte’s Pan Asian Director of the Year award (2018) and was named the NACD New Jersey Chapter’s Director of the Year (2019).