Eileen Fisher

As of early September 2022, Eileen Fisher’s new chief executive will be Lisa Williams, the current chief product officer at Patagonia. Eileen Fisher said she was delighted to have found a successor. When she started out in 1984, Eileen Fisher was a recent graduate of the University of Illinois. The second of seven children who grew up in the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines, she had originally come to New York to become an interior designer. Ms. Fisher faces the prospect of slightly more free time. She doesn’t want to travel, she said, instead preferring to spend more time doing kundalini yoga and meditation, playing mahjong with friends and learning how to cook good Japanese food after the recent retirement of her longtime chef. She also has two adult children, Sasha and Zach, with whom she wants to spend more time. She wants to continue a focus on education through her philanthropic organization, the Eileen Fisher Foundation.