Chris Sinclair graduated summa cum laude from the University of Kansas with a bachelor's degree in marketing, and he was a member of Alpha Tau Omega.

Sinclair began his career at General Foods and Newsweek, before spending more than 15 years at PepsiCo.

Since his tenure at PepsiCo, Sinclair has been CEO of QFC[5] (NYSE), a US west coast supermarket chain backed by billionaire Samuel Zell's Equity Group.

Fred Meyer is now owned by Kroger/[7] Sinclair led the financial restructuring of Caribiner International (now Jack Morton Worldwide) as chairman and CEO of this Warburg Pincus-sponsored global business communications company.

[12] He is a former director of Foot Locker, FW Woolworth Company, Merisant (Equal Sugar), PepsiCo and Perdue Farms[10][13] He has served as a trustee at Brunswick School, Vermont Academy, on the board of overseers at the Tuck School of Business.