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Lindsay Radkoski Learned to Market Burgers by Reading the Numbers
She entered Wendy's through investor relations, learned the machinery behind the menu, and emerged as the marketer behind value platforms, loyalty and a very online redhead. Now a 15-year chapter is entering its final stretch.
Adrian Fuoco Makes the Spreadsheet Funny
Pizza Pizza's CMO has built a body of work around a deceptively practical idea: earn attention with a joke, then make the numbers carry it home.
Xavier Leport Is Turning the Pizza Order Into a Growth System
At Pizza Salvatoré and Groupe Abbatiello, Xavier Leport has treated the online order as more than a transaction. It is the feedback loop behind a fast-growing restaurant operation.
Katherine Bond-Debicki Is Teaching an Old Bucket New Tricks
KFC Canada’s marketing chief has spent a decade turning heritage into a working asset - balancing the Colonel, the bucket and 11 herbs and spices with digital ordering, cultural timing and a sharper appetite for change.
Alejandra Gonzalez learned English from Friends and built a career selling chicken across 40 countries
From a bank teller's desk in El Salvador to the marketing chair at KFC's 40-country Latin American business, on a passport full of stamps and a habit of applying for jobs she wasn't ready for.
Noah Chillingworth Knows the Menu Is a Memory Machine
After 32 years marketing food people eat in their cars, Noah Chillingworth has learned that value is emotional, nostalgia is operational, and useful restaurant ideas begin by listening closely.
Guillermo Hermosillo Cue Knows a Global Brand Must Speak Local
From tamarind burgers to regional brand leadership, Guillermo Hermosillo Cue has built a career translating global scale into ideas that feel unmistakably local.
Tom Fox
Tom Fox is the Chief Executive Officer of Fingermark, a New Zealand-founded technology company that deploys vision AI, intelligent kiosks, and digital menu systems inside some of the world's biggest quick-service restaurant chains. Based in San Francisco, Fox leads a 90-person global operation whose Eyecue platform turns ordinary restaurant cameras into real-time operational intelligence - monitoring drive-thru queues, measuring speed of service, and surfacing AI-generated performance diagnostics across fleets of McDonald's, Taco Bell, KFC, Popeyes, and Carl's Jr. locations. He brings a career built at the intersection of restaurant technology and enterprise operations, having previously served as Chief Business Officer at Omnivore (acquired by Olo), Chief Product Officer at Bite, and Head of Partnerships at Ansa.
Desmond Lim
Desmond Lim is the co-founder and CEO of Workstream, an HR, payroll, and hiring platform built for the 70 million hourly and deskless workers in the US. Born in Singapore to a delivery driver father and part-time cleaner mother, he became the first in his family to attend university, went on to Harvard and MIT, and built a company that now serves 46 of the top 50 quick-service restaurant brands — including McDonald's, Burger King, and Dunkin' — while raising over $120M in venture funding.