Yum Manufacturers has promoted Joe Park to chief digital and know-how officer. Park will report back to Chris Turner, Yum Manufacturers CFO, when he takes the place March 1, in response to a press launch.
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Joe Park. Photograph: Yum Manufacturers |
Park, who most just lately served as chief digital and know-how officer for Pizza Hut International, succeeds Clay Johnson, who will proceed with Yum Manufacturers as a senior advisor.
As CDTO, Park will be part of the Yum Manufacturers International Management Crew and oversee the Firm’s international know-how technique, partnering with the KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and the Behavior Burger Grill divisions to make sure the Firm offers a best-in-class digital expertise for patrons and restaurant staff members and robust economics for franchisees.
Park joined Yum Manufacturers in 2020 as its first chief innovation officer and has served as Chief Digital and Know-how Officer for Pizza Hut International since 2021. In his most up-to-date position, Park was liable for main omnichannel buyer experiences, e-commerce and restaurant applied sciences for greater than 19,000 Pizza Hut eating places in additional than 100 nations.
“We’re ingraining digital and know-how into all facets of our enterprise with thrilling new capabilities that make issues simple for patrons and restaurant staff members, whereas driving worthwhile development for Yum! and our franchisees,” Turner stated within the press launch. “We have made nice progress enhancing digital ordering, implementing applied sciences to enhance restaurant operations, leveraging information to allow sensible decision-making and piloting rising applied sciences, and Joe Park has been an distinctive associate on this journey over the previous few years. Joe is an energizing and visionary chief with a confirmed observe report of quickly deploying fashionable eCommerce and information platforms and scaling revolutionary applied sciences like Dragontail and HutBot throughout Pizza Hut’s international system. I am assured that Joe will assist Yum! proceed to strengthen our know-how ecosystem and scale our digital options at a speedy tempo to ship modern capabilities to our franchisees with advantaged economics.”
“I am extremely excited to proceed working with the gifted and devoted digital and know-how staff members world wide, and to associate with our world-class franchisees to execute the corporate’s international know-how technique,” Park stated within the press launch. “I am grateful to have labored alongside Clay Johnson at Yum Manufacturers since 2020 and sit up for persevering with to assist the Firm drive its initiatives to ship a best-in-class digital expertise for patrons and restaurant staff members.
