Orange Brands Management CEO and leadership

Omar Gutierrez is a Chief Operating Officer at ORANGE BRANDS MANAGEMENT and is based in New, York. He has worked as Vice President of Restaurants at Hakkasan Group. Omar studied at University of Nevada Las Vegas.

PATRICIA GONZALES, Chief Administrative Officer

Patricia has been a crucial part of the company’s success since 2000, when she joined just one year after the first SUSHISAMBA opened in NYC. Alongside the CEO and Managing Partners, she has been instrumental growing the company from the original core executive team of four to the current global management and supervisorial team of over a hundred and the global team of approximately 1,000+ employees.

Since her time as a psychology major at Stony Brook University, Patricia has always had a passion for understanding people. She truly believes that a company is only as strong as its people, and that effective operations and lucrative businesses are impossible without fostering strong professional and personal relationships.

During her tenure, Patricia has built the human resources and accounting departments, earning titles ranging from Controller to Executive Director of HR. In 2011 she secured the role of COO. Most recently, she has taken on the title of CAO to reflect her role overseeing the entirety of the senior global management workforce and the performance of the daily operations including finance, marketing, event sales, restaurant operations and human resources.

Patricia acts as a trusted partner to each Head of Department, providing leadership, support and counsel on budgeting, recruitment and employee relations with an emphasis on strategic planning and policies, procedures, and controls.

Recruiting is one of Gonzales’ passion-points; she is always looking for enthusiastic and passionate people to join the OBM team, and invites anyone interested to apply.

careers@orangebrandsmanagement.com

Marc Whitehead is a Group CFO at ORANGE BRANDS MANAGEMENT and is based in St Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. He has worked as Financial Consultant at Caffe Italia and Pontis Italian Kitchen, Finance and Operations Director at Digital Cinema Media, and Finance Director at TGI Fridays. Marc attended Qualified ACCA and MBA.