Shake Shack Leadership

Q: Who is the founder of Shake Shack?

Daniel Harris Meyer founded Shake Shack.

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Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:

The Shake Shack executive team is 29% female and 71% male.
66% of the management team is White.
15% of Shake Shack management is Hispanic or Latino.
10% of the management team is Black or African American.

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Name & TitleBio

Daniel Harris Meyer

Founder

Randall Garutti

Board Member

Zachary Koff

Chief Operating Officer

Zach Koff has served as the Chief Operating Officer since January 2017. Prior to becoming Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Koff served as Senior Vice President, Operations since March 2015, Vice President, Operations since April 2012, and Director of Operations since February 2010. Prior to joining Shake Shack, Mr. Koff spent 8 years working in operations for Bravo Brio Restaurant Group. Mr. Koff graduated from Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration in 2002 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Hospitality Administration and a concentration is law.

Anna Fieler

Board Member

Jonathan D. Sokoloff

Board Member

Andrew McCaughan

Chief Development Officer

Andrew McCaughan is a Vice President of Development at SHAKE SHACK INC., Development Project Manager at SHAKE SHACK INC., and Chief Development Officer at SHAKE SHACK INC. and is based in New York, New York. He has worked as Assistant to Chef Rick Bayless at Frontera Grill. Andrew attended Vassar College between 2003 and 2007 and Francis W. Parker School.

Joshua G. Silverman

Board Member

Michael Kark

Chief Global Licensing Officer

Michael Kark is a Chief Global Licensing Officer at SHAKE SHACK INC..

Robert T. Vivian

Board Member

Sumaiya Balbale

Board Member

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Shake Shack founders

Name & TitleBio

Daniel Harris Meyer

Founder

Shake Shack board members

Name & TitleBio

Daniel Harris Meyer

Founder

Randall Garutti

Board Member

Anna Fieler

Board Member

Jonathan D. Sokoloff

Board Member

Joshua G. Silverman

Board Member

Robert T. Vivian

Board Member

Sumaiya Balbale

Board Member

Tristan Walker

Board Member

Jeffrey Flug

Board Member

Jenna Lyons

Board Member

Shake Shack leadership demographics

Shake Shack gender distribution in management team

The Shake Shack executive team is 29% female and 71% male.
Shake Shack is 54% female and 46% male company-wide.

Male

71%

Company-wide: 46%

Female

29%

Company-wide: 54%

Shake Shack executives by race

Management Team:

The most common ethnicity among Shake Shack executive officers is White.
66% of the management team is White.
15% of Shake Shack's management is Hispanic or Latino.
10% of the management team is Black or African American.

Company-wide:

White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
59% of employees are White.
16% of employees are Black or African American.
16% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.

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What employees say about the executives at Shake Shack

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1.0

A zippia user wrote a review on Apr 2024

Pros of working at Shake Shack

Managers and supervisors are abusive and disrespectful.

Cons of working at Shake Shack

Managers are mean, disrespectful and abusive

Shake Shack benefits

None

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

Never meet him

How would you improve Shake Shack's culture?

I would get new management.

How did you prepare for the Shake Shack interview?

Reading about the company profile and acquiring knowledge of the same

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5.0

A zippia user wrote a review on Jul 2023

Pros of working at Shake Shack

Good team your own position and good management team

Cons of working at Shake Shack

Customers

Shake Shack benefits

You can become a trainer

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3.0

A zippia user wrote a review on Feb 2023

Pros of working at Shake Shack

pay

Cons of working at Shake Shack

The list is long but overall i dint like management. They hire random people and half ass their training.

Shake Shack benefits

Paid on wednesday!

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5.0

A zippia user wrote a review on Oct 2021

Pros of working at Shake Shack

Friendly and social environment

Cons of working at Shake Shack

Can’t balance work and life schedules. Working 10+ hour shifts for 4-5 days a week.

Shake Shack benefits

Bonus and great management partners.

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Updated November 18, 2022

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