Company · Food & Beverage · founded 1997
Yum! Brands
Louisville, Kentucky restaurant company that operates KFC, Taco Bell and Habit Burger & Grill. Formed in 1997 as a PepsiCo spin-off; Pizza Hut was part of it until a 2026 divestiture.
Of the 1 person here linked to Yum! Brands, 0 are founders and 0 are still there. 1 of them also appear at Chipotle Mexican Grill. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.
1 person at Yum! Brands
Executive Past
Role
VP strategic marketing from 2005, Pizza Hut CMO from 2007, Taco Bell chief marketing and innovation officer from 2011, Taco Bell CEO from January 2015, 2005–2018
Source
· medium confidence. Covers Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, both Yum! Brands units. Wikipedia's timeline has a gap between Pizza Hut and October 2011; Chicago Booth says Pizza Hut roles ran 2005 to 2011. End year inferred from the March 2018 Chipotle start.
Food & Beverage · Retail 3 / 0
Brian Niccol
Chairman and CEO, Starbucks; former CEO of Chipotle and Taco Bell
class not established · some · graduate degree
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