Joe Park Promoted to Yum! Brands Chief Digital & Technology Officer
10 Janvier 2024 - 10:15PM
Business Wire
Park Succeeds Clay Johnson, Who Will Continue
as a Senior Advisor
Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM) today announced the promotion of
Joe Park to Chief Digital & Technology Officer, reporting to
Chris Turner, Yum! Brands Chief Financial Officer, effective March
1, 2024. Park, who most recently served as Chief Digital &
Technology Officer for Pizza Hut Global, succeeds Clay Johnson, who
will continue with Yum! Brands as a Senior Advisor. As CDTO, Park
will join the Yum! Brands Global Leadership Team and oversee the
Company’s global technology strategy, partnering with the KFC,
Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and the Habit Burger Grill divisions to ensure
the Company provides a best-in-class digital experience for
customers and restaurant team members and strong economics for
franchisees.
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Yum! Brands, Inc. announced the promotion
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“We’re ingraining digital and technology into all aspects of our
business with exciting new capabilities that make things easy for
customers and restaurant team members, while driving profitable
growth for Yum! and our franchisees,” said Turner. “We’ve made
great progress enhancing digital ordering, implementing
technologies to improve restaurant operations, leveraging data to
enable smart decision-making and piloting emerging technologies,
and Joe Park has been an exceptional partner on this journey over
the past few years. Joe is an energizing and visionary leader with
a proven track record of rapidly deploying modern eCommerce and
data platforms and scaling innovative technologies like Dragontail
and HutBot across Pizza Hut’s global system. I’m confident that Joe
will help Yum! continue to strengthen our technology ecosystem and
scale our digital solutions at a rapid pace to deliver leading-edge
capabilities to our franchisees with advantaged economics.”
Yum!’s strategy is to own differentiated technology platforms
tailored for each brand and market that enable Easy Experiences for
customers, Easy Operations for restaurant teams and Easy Insights
to drive outsized growth. In 2022, Yum! Brands reached a new high
of $24 billion in digital sales – doubling its digital business
since 2019 – demonstrating the power of its digital ecosystem and
capabilities of its brands to meet changing consumer needs around
the world. Yum! Brands’ digital sales continue on a trajectory
toward the next milestone of achieving $30 billion in annual
digital sales.
Park joined Yum! Brands in 2020 as its first Chief Innovation
Officer and has served as Chief Digital and Technology Officer for
Pizza Hut Global since 2021. In his most recent role, Park was
responsible for leading omnichannel customer experiences,
e-commerce and restaurant technologies for more than 19,000 Pizza
Hut restaurants in more than 100 countries. At Pizza Hut, Park
oversaw the rollout of Dragontail’s AI-based platform for
optimizing and managing the entire food preparation process from
order through delivery, and HutBot, Pizza Hut’s
“coach-in-your-pocket” app for managers, both of which have been
deployed in thousands of restaurants across multiple markets. In
his previous role as Chief Innovation Officer for Yum! Brands, Park
led the development of emerging technologies, including leveraging
artificial intelligence and automation to streamline operations in
the Company’s restaurant kitchens and enhance the experience for
team members and customers. Prior to joining Yum! Brands, Park held
executive leadership positions at Walmart and GE. At Walmart, Park
was VP of Associate Digital Experience and Enterprise Architecture,
overseeing 2,000 employees and providing technology to the largest
private sector workforce in the world, modernizing platforms,
digitizing processes and transforming user experiences.
“I’m incredibly excited to continue working with the talented
and dedicated digital and technology team members around the world,
and to partner with our world-class franchisees to execute the
company’s global technology strategy,” said Park. “I’m grateful to
have worked alongside Clay Johnson at Yum! Brands since 2020 and
look forward to continuing to help the Company drive its
initiatives to deliver a best-in-class digital experience for
customers and restaurant team members alike.”
“In the past few years, we have elevated the Company’s digital
strategy, working with our brand technology teams in combination
with Yum!’s digital and technology teams, both creating and
acquiring a distinctive set of technology capabilities and driving
tremendous growth in our digital sales,” Turner added. “We are
grateful for all that Clay has done during that time and we
appreciate that he will be continuing in the role as a senior
advisor to our company.”
About Yum! Brands
Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, and its
subsidiaries franchise or operate a system of over 57,000
restaurants in more than 155 countries and territories under the
company’s concepts – KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and the Habit Burger
Grill. The Company's KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut brands are global
leaders of the chicken, Mexican-style food, and pizza categories,
respectively. The Habit Burger Grill is a fast casual restaurant
concept specializing in made-to-order chargrilled burgers,
sandwiches and more. In addition, in 2023 Yum! Brands was included
on the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index; Dow Jones Sustainability
Index North America; Forbes’ list of America’s Best Employers for
Diversity; TIME Magazine’s list of Best Companies for Future
Leaders; and Newsweek’s lists recognizing America’s Most
Responsible Companies, America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity,
America’s Greenest Companies and America’s Greatest Workplaces for
Women.
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Analysts are invited to contact: Matt Morris, Head of
Investor Relations, Yum! Brands, at 888/298-6986
Members of the media are invited to contact: Virginia
Ferguson, Vice President of Public Relations, Yum! Brands, at
502/874-8200
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