Vicky Tsai

Vicky Tsai (born 1978 ) is an American businesswoman who is a co-founder of Tatcha, a skincare company based on Japanese beauty rituals.

Early life and education As a young infant, Tsai's parents moved to the United States from Taiwan, settling in Houston, Texas. In school, Tsai was one of the only Asian students. She struggled with her identity as a result of feeling underrepresented and isolated as a minority in early '90s Texas.

Tsai studied at Wellesley College, where she received a B.A. in economics, and Harvard Business School, where she received an M.B.A. and later led research on the state of AAPI women in business. She found her first corporate job working for Starbucks in Shanghai, which focused on its expansion into the China market. Her team pitched and executed a strategy to launch consumer products in China in time for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which housed the bottled Starbucks Frappuccino. Tsai worked in corporate America as a financier for a decade and spent her twenties traveling globally for work.

Tatcha Tsai traveled to Kyoto, Japan, in 2008.

After Tatcha Despite many years at the company, the business was sold to Unilever in 2019 for $500 million, and Tsai stepped down shortly afterward.