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Dave Hoffmann was appointed the President of McDonald’s Asia Pacific Middle East Africa (APMEA) on 1st July 2012. McDonald’s footprint in this area of the world covers 37 countries with 8,900 restaurants. Prior to his new role, Dave was the Senior Vice President and Restaurant Support Officer for APMEA where he was responsible for Operations, Supply Chain, Strategy and Insights; and Development. Most significantly, Dave anchored APMEA’s ambition to grow bigger, better and bolder through the zone’s strategic planning process, asset portfolio management and restaurant expansion goals. Dave began his career with McDonald’s in 1984 as Crew, before attending Indiana University, where he graduated in 1990 and joined Arthur Anderson & Co. After leaving Arthur Anderson in 1994, Dave undertook his MBA, and returned to McDonald’s through an Internship program with the Franchising Department in Oak Brook. From 1996 to 2004 Dave held numerous Operations positions from Restaurant Manager, McOpCo and Field Service Consultant, McOpCo and Field Service Manager, Director of Operations and Training for the Central Division and US Operations Director. In 2005 Dave was promoted to Senior Director of North America Strategy and Execution and then later was responsible for Global Strategy and Execution. In 2007, Dave relocated to Japan, where he took the role of Senior Vice President - Strategy and Franchising. In this role, Dave franchised over 1000 Restaurants, closed over 400 underperforming sites while creating a sustainable franchising system and organization in Japan. In 2009, Dave was promoted to Executive Vice President of McDonald’s Japan and together with the Japan leadership team, significantly improved the country’s performance metrics including Operating Income, Return On Total Assets and Customer Service Opportunity. In 2011, Dave relocated to the APMEA Regional Office in Singapore where he led the APMEA Strategy, Insights and Development teams and in that same year his role broadened as SVP and Restaurant Support Officer to include Operations and Supply Chain. On 1st July 2012, Dave was appointed the President of APMEA and remains residence in Singapore with his family.

A results-driven and top-performing global executive specializing in the hospitality, restaurant and food service industries, with extensive expertise in new brand development, brand extensions, brand repositioning, loyalty initiatives, franchise management, product development, concept innovation and turnaround management. Demonstrated track record of success in managing increasingly large and complex portfolios of hospitality and foodservice organizations. Proven aptitude for implementing innovative and customer-focused solutions to grow and reinvigorate brands, improve loyalty, generate significant financial savings and drive revenue growth. Highly effective communicator and inspirational team manager.

Jeremy Heimans is the co-founder and CEO of Purpose, a Public Benefit Corporation headquartered in New York with offices on six continents, that builds and supports movements for an open, just, and habitable world. He is co-founder of GetUp!, an Australian political organization with more members than all of Australia's political parties combined, and Avaaz, the world’s largest online citizens’ movement, now with more than 50 million members worldwide. Heimans has been building movements since the age of 8 when, as a child activist in his native Australia, he ran media campaigns and lobbied leaders on issues like children’s rights and nuclear non-proliferation. Heimans has been named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business, The Guardian has named him as one of the ten most influential voices on sustainability in the US, and The Monthly has observed that Heimans “might be the most influential Australian in the world”. With Henry Timms, Jeremy is co-author of the bestselling book “New Power”, praised by the New York Times’ David Brooks as “the best window I’ve seen into this new world” and by The Guardian as “a manual on how to navigate the 21st century”. The book was short-listed for the 2018 FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year and named a best book of the year by Bloomberg, Fortune, Inc, CNBC and others. Heimans and Timms’ thinking on new power has been featured as the Big Idea in Harvard Business Review, as one of CNN’s “ideas to change the world” and Jeremy’s top-rated TED talk on the topic has been viewed 1.5 million times. He is a recipient of the Ford Foundation's 75th anniversary Visionary Award, the Foreign Policy Association Medal and the Performance Theater’s Inspired Leadership Award. He served as chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Civic Participation. Heimans has been a keynote speaker at venues such as the World Economic Forum at Davos, TED, the Aspen Institute Ideas Festival, the RSA, Chatham House, the United Nations, Blair House, The Economist Big Rethink, The Guardian Activate and Social Media Week. Jeremy was educated at Harvard University and the University of Sydney, and began his career with the strategy consultants McKinsey & Company. He lives in New York.