Lynn Tyson

Executive Director, Investor Relations, Ford Motor Company

Lynn Antipas Tyson is executive director, Investor Relations, effective October 2017. She reports to John Lawler, chief financial officer.

In this role, she is responsible for leading all of Ford’s investor relations initiatives, including representing the company to equity and fixed income investors and rating agencies, and providing strategic counsel to support value creation and risk mitigation.

Tyson’s career spans over 25 years of leadership roles in treasury, international corporate finance, corporate communications and investor relations serving in senior level positions at Ford, PepsiCo, Dell and other leading companies. Tyson has also provided strategic communications consulting services to companies looking to enhance the effectiveness of their investor relations programs. Specialty areas include leveraging investor relations as a competitive advantage, strategic communications, IPOs, and crisis communications. Tyson's capabilities have been recognized by the equity market across several sectors for building and leading world-class investor relations functions and she is also a recipient of the Silver Anvil Award for excellence in crisis communications from the Public Relations Society of America.

Tyson’s career includes 14 years of finance and strategic communications experience with PepsiCo, where she ultimately served as Senior Vice President, Investor Relations, and 10 years at Dell, where she led Investor Relations and Global Corporate Communications. Prior to Dell, Tyson led Investor Relations for YUM! Brands, where she was involved in its spin-off from PepsiCo in 1997.

Tyson holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the City College of New York and an MBA in finance and international business from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

In April 2021, Tyson was appointed to the board of Q2 Holdings, Inc., a public Texas-based company that provides digital solutions for banking and lending. In her role on the board, Lynn is a member of the Audit as well as the Nominating & Corporate Governance committees. Tyson is a long-standing member of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI), serving as a board member from 2004-2008. During her tenure on the board, Tyson Co-Chaired the Audit Committee and Chaired the CEO Search Committee. In 2019, Tyson Chaired the NIRI Think Tank that produced the white paper: "The Disruption Opportunity: A Report on the Future of Investor Relations."