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KFC CEO and executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, Anthony Lowings is the KFC's CEO. KFC has 820,000 employees, of which 28 are in a leadership position.
Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:
  • The KFC executive team is 43% female and 57% male.
  • 60% of the management team is White.
  • 11% of KFC management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 10% of the management team is Black or African American.
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Anthony Lowings

Chief Executive Officer

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Tony serves as Chief Executive Officer of KFC Global. In this role, he leads a $26B business that includes over 23,000 restaurants in over 140 countries. Reporting to Tony are the regional general managers (GMs) of the KFC Division and the president of KFC US.

A long-time veteran of Yum!, Tony joined the company in 1994 as Planning Director for the Finance Division in Australia before transitioning into operations-first as State Manager for KFC (NSW region), and then as General Manager Operations for Pizza Hut (South Pacific), before returning to KFC as GM Operations (South Pacific). He also worked internationally for a number of years with Yum!, including his role as General Manager of the South American, Central American and Caribbean business unit, where Tony had responsibility for the KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell units across this region.

In 2010, Tony was appointed as Chief Operations Officer for the Yum! Restaurants International division, based in Dallas. He then moved back to Australia and, for five years, ran the Australia and New Zealand KFC business as Managing Director until mid-2016. During this time, KFC Australia won a number of prestigious awards including the Large Retailer of the Year and NRA Supreme Award (National Retail Association). In 2014, Tony was honored with the highly esteemed CEO of the Year Award by the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI). In early 2018, Tony was named KFC Global President and Chief Operating Officer, before quickly ascending to Chief Executive Officer in January 2019.

Harland Sanders

Founder

Pete Harman

Founder

Catherine Tan-Gillespie

Chief Marketing Officer

Catherine Tan-Gillespie's LinkedIn

Catherine is a student Harvard Business School graduating in 2021 and is based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She is a Global Chief Marketing Officer, KFC at YUM BRANDS INC and Global Chief Marketing Officer at KFC Corporation. Catherine has worked as Chief Marketing Officer at KFC South Pacific (Yum! Brands Subsidiary), Marketing Director at Goodman Fielder, and Graduate Management Programme - various roles at FRITO LAY. She studied at Prince Henry's, Evesham, UK between 1987 and 1992; University of Plymouth, U.K between 1992 and 1996; and AGSM @ UNSW Business School between 2008 and 2016.

Chris Caldwell

Chief Information Officer (CIO)

Chris Caldwell's LinkedIn

Management of multiple IT groups within a large multinational organization.Specialties: Purchasing, negotiation, architecture, project management and operations.

Monica Rothgery

Chief Operations Officer

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Staci Rawls

Chief Communications Officer (CCO)

Staci Rawls's LinkedIn

Well-rounded communications leader with extensive experience in the strategic planning, development and implementation of comprehensive internal and external communications programs

Brian Goldstein

Chief Operations Officer

Brian Goldstein's LinkedIn

Brian Goldstein is a Chief Operations Officer at KFC Corporation and is based in Louisville, Kentucky. He has worked as VP of Ops at Taco Bell and Senior Region Leader at Taco Bell.

Dyke Shipp

Chief People Office and Chief Development Officer

Dyke Shipp's LinkedIn

Dyke serves as both Chief People Officer and Chief Development Officer for KFC Global.

As CPO, Dyke is responsible for identifying and developing top talent, building the people capability needed to run great restaurants and champion KFC's heart led culture around the world.

As the brand’s senior Development leader, he oversees all new store development, existing store redevelopment and asset design activities to accelerate the company’s sales growth in over 140 countries and over 23,000 restaurants around the world. Under his leadership, the development teams have opened over 1,000 new restaurants every year, generating 30,000 new jobs around the world.

Before moving to Yum! Restaurants International in 2006, Dyke served as Vice President of Development for Yum! in the US. He joined Taco Bell in 1991 and has served in various Development capacities in the US and Canada. Prior to joining Yum!, Dyke worked with Merrill Lynch.

Sabir Sami

Chief Operations Officer

Sabir Sami's LinkedIn

Sabir serves as the Chief Operations Officer (COO) of KFC Global. In his role, he leads our global operations team and drives the KFC global operations agenda while overseeing Thailand, Asia Central, and Greater Asia.

Prior to joining Yum! Sabir worked for brands like Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, and Reckitt Benckiser.

Sabir joined Yum! in 2009. He worked on all three brands during his tenure as General Manager of Yum! Canada. Over the last decade, Sabir has driven growth and high performance in each of his roles within the organization. In his previous role with the company, Sabir served as Managing Director, KFC MENAPakT and Asia.

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Harland Sanders

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Pete Harman

Founder

KFC leadership demographics

KFC gender distribution in management team

  • The KFC executive team is 43% female and 57% male.
  • KFC is 57% female and 43% male company-wide.
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Male
57%
Company-wide: 43%
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Company-wide: 57%

KFC executives by race

Management Team:
  • The most common ethnicity among KFC executive officers is White.
  • 60% of the management team is White.
  • 11% of KFC's management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 10% of the management team is Asian.
Company-wide:
  • White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
  • 63% of employees are White.
  • 15% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.
  • 12% of employees are Black or African American.
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What employees say about the executives at KFC

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A zippia user wrote a review on Aug 2024
Pros of working at KFC

to get same money to meet my needs and for my sisters and brothers

Cons of working at KFC

food services and delivering food to other workers in the company

KFC benefits

eating free food ,good security,geting money on time ,free transport

What do you like best about KFC's CEO and the leadership team?

he understand his employees, smile with every one ,no too much work , enough equipment for the work

How would you improve KFC's culture?

they should improve by expanding the resturant the place where i worked

How did you prepare for the KFC interview?

the CEO

What brings you the most joy at KFC?

time manegment

What's the diversity at KFC like?

good as well

How does your compensation at KFC compare to the industry average?

no difference but i am planing to get more money

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A zippia user wrote a review on Sep 2023
Pros of working at KFC

The hours are available almost always to work 40 hrs week

Cons of working at KFC

The way management speaks to you, belittles you, inconsistent training, lack of training, "do as I say, not as I do" mentalility. The unavailability of management any higher than the stores RGM

KFC benefits

Lienency with running late, or unexpected emergencies. You don't get fired like you would at a factory.

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A zippia user wrote a review on Aug 2023
Pros of working at KFC

I like here there working because I lead the team and team to enjoy my to my company

Cons of working at KFC

Here sellery package and also leave problem faces

KFC benefits

Nothing

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5.0
A zippia user wrote a review on Jul 2023
Pros of working at KFC

I love the guest and I love how everyone works together as a team

Cons of working at KFC

nothing

KFC benefits

we do not have benefit

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3.0
A zippia user wrote a review on Jun 2023
Pros of working at KFC

Mangers always show their appreciation to me, and they promote my to shift supervisor. The general manager of the store gave a flexible schedule with my school schedule. Also my co-workers are being so supportive and helpful.

Cons of working at KFC

The location of the store makes me so uncomfortable because customers always cause so many problems everyday and they sometimes customers be yelling at the employees and threat them.

KFC benefits

Thanks to the store manger he gave me a flexible schedule that goes with my school schedule.

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5.0
A zippia user wrote a review on Dec 2022
Pros of working at KFC

being a team member there

Cons of working at KFC

Don’t wanna give any over time nor train you to be anything else

KFC benefits

50% employees discount

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4.0
A zippia user wrote a review on Jul 2021
Pros of working at KFC

It was easy and people got along with each other.

Cons of working at KFC

The way we was getting treated by the managers

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A zippia user wrote a review on Jun 2021
Pros of working at KFC

I had the chance to grow, I was always ready to learn to the point I was able to do certain task management does.

Cons of working at KFC

That I was to young to become a manager even though I knew how to do everything.

KFC benefits

Being able to satisfy customers and being able to have a free meal.

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A zippia user wrote a review on Jun 2021
Pros of working at KFC

Working with team members.

Cons of working at KFC

There was no respect for normal employees and there was too much pressure to work.

KFC benefits

There was no benefit.

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A zippia user wrote a review on Feb 2021
Pros of working at KFC

My coworkers and direct superiors were all super close so the company feels very connected and teamwork was easy.

Cons of working at KFC

some parts of the corporate structure were slow about communicating with team members when it came time for paychecks or paystubs.

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