{"id":14686,"date":"2019-09-17T20:04:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T18:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/?p=14686"},"modified":"2019-09-18T10:37:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T08:37:12","slug":"yum-brands-hires-cio-from-walmart-as-cto-and-promotes-felder-to-new-cso-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/en\/yum-brands-hires-cio-from-walmart-as-cto-and-promotes-felder-to-new-cso-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Yum! Brands hires CIO from Walmart as CTO and promotes Felder to new CSO role"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yum! Brands has hired Clay Johnson, 49, as the Company\u2019s Chief Digital and Technology Officer, and promoted Gavin Felder, 40, to Chief Strategy Officer. These newly created leadership positions will partner with the global brand divisions to elevate the customer experience and accelerate global growth.<\/p>\n

Johnson most recently served as Chief Information Officer and head of Global Business Services for Walmart, where he was responsible for leading the Company\u2019s enterprise information technology strategy, services, operations and cyber security. Under his leadership, Johnson played a key role in leading Walmart\u2019s digital transformation and leveraging technology to increase speed, value and provide a better customer experience. He built innovation hubs in Dallas and Austin, Texas, to focus on emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, machine vision, machine learning, blockchain, big data and the \u00abInternet of things.\u00bb With an emphasis on the customer journey, he moved Walmart\u2019s technology organization to a product model with an agile way of working.<\/p>\n

Felder\u2019s leadership has been a strong asset to the KFC Division, which delivered three consecutive years of positive same-store sales growth and increased KFC\u2019s global restaurant footprint by more than 2,500 net-new units as of year-end 2018.<\/p>\n

He will retain his current KFC Division Chief Financial Officer role, title and responsibilities through the end of 2019 while the Company conducts a search to identify a successor CFO for the Division.<\/p>\n

Johnson’s appointment is effective October 15th, 2019 and Felder will take on his new responsibilities on December 1st this same year.<\/p>\n

\u201cYum! Brands has a unique opportunity to leverage our global scale and build capabilities that transform both the customer and team member experience,\u201d said Felder. \u201cThere is so much growth ahead of us at Yum! and I couldn\u2019t be more excited to partner with our brand teams and franchisees to find new, innovative ways to unlock this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Clay Johnson (CTO at Yum! Brands) and Gavin Felder (Chief Strategy officer at Yum! Brands). Both photos (Businesswire). Composition, \u00a9 Eastwind.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cTechnology \u00abTechnology is an enabler to unlock value for the business and the end customer,\u201d explained Johnson. \u201cI\u2019m thrilled to join Yum! Brands and look forward to collaborating with the KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell teams on leveraging omnichannel strategies, advanced analytics and emerging technologies to benefit customers, employees and franchisees.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an exciting time at Yum! because we have an incredible opportunity to leverage our massive scale and expand our digital and technology competencies in order to drive global same-store sales and net-new unit growth and improve franchise unit economics,\u201d Turner said.<\/p>\n

Two new roles for better custommer experience an better growth<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

As Chief Strategy Officer, Felder will be responsible for developing Yum! Brands\u2019 long-term corporate strategies and partnering with the global brand divisions to implement initiatives to unlock new sources of growth and disruptive innovation. Felder will work closely with Johnson to integrate technology-centric solutions across store operations, including the restaurant automation strategy, to elevate the customer and team member experience. Felder has served as KFC Division Chief Financial Officer for the last five years, overseeing strategy, digital and technology, financial planning, supply chain and IT security for the KFC business spanning over 23,000 restaurants across 135 countries.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Clay Johnson (CTO at Yum! Brands). Photo (Businesswire).<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Johnson will join the Yum! Brands Global Leadership Team and oversee the Company\u2019s global technology strategy, partnering with the KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell divisions to ensure the Company provides a best-in-class digital journey across mobile, online, delivery and restaurant operations. He will lead a coordinated, cross-brand effort to accelerate the Company\u2019s digital commerce strategy, use of data and advanced analytics and emerging technologies to enhance the customer and employee experience. As the chair of the Global Technology Leadership Team, Johnson will work closely with each global brand division technology chief who reports to his or her respective executive leader. In addition, Yum! Brands\u2019 global technology risk management and IT shared services teams will report to Johnson.<\/p>\n

The CIO of the Year<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Johnson is well recognized in the industry for his ability to drive new innovation and was recently named CIO of the Year and one of the Most Influential CIOs in the industry. He\u00a0brings more than 20 years of technology leadership across FORTUNE 50 companies and industries, successfully driving digital transformation initiatives into all aspects of business.<\/p>\n

Prior to Walmart, Johnson served as Chief Information Officer at General Electric (GE) Power where he had end-to-end responsibility for information technology, cyber security, data and digital transformation. Johnson previously held leadership roles at The Boeing Company and Dell. He started his career at FedEx as a software engineer. Johnson served five years in the United States Coast Guard, where he held numerous leadership positions. He holds an MBA and a bachelor\u2019s degree in computer science engineering from the University of Texas.<\/p>\n

\u201cClay has the deep knowledge and skills needed to oversee a cross-brand effort to fast-track our digital commerce capabilities, unlock value from data and advanced analytics and integrate cost-effective technology solutions to enhance restaurant operations and the customer experience. And Gavin\u2019s outstanding strategic capabilities and global experience make him the perfect leader to help set our long-term strategies and drive collaboration across our brands to unlock innovation in our business model and operations,\u201d said Yum! Brands Chief Financial Officer Chris Turner.<\/p>\n

Internal talent promotion<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Partnering with franchisees, a key part of the KFC Division\u2019s growth strategy has been to make it easier and more rewarding to<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Gavin Felder (CSO at Yum! Brands). Photo (Businesswire).<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

access the brand through digital and restaurant technology innovation around the world. Felder\u2019s leadership has been key in accelerating KFC\u2019s omnichannel strategy execution, providing multiple ordering channels and customer access points including delivery, Click & Collect mobile ordering and kiosks. Today, KFC offers delivery in more than 12,000 restaurants in over 90 countries.<\/p>\n

KFC has Click & Collect in over 10,000 restaurants and expects to offer it at more than 18,000 stores by the end of 2020.<\/p>\n

Since Felder joined the KFC business in 2008, he has held various leadership positions across finance including Chief Financial Officer of KFC Africa and Commercial Director of KFC U.K. and Ireland.<\/p>\n

Prior to his time at Yum! Brands, Felder spent time in audit at global accounting firms Ernst & Young and Grant Thornton.<\/p>\n

He holds an undergraduate degree in commerce and a post-graduate degree in accounting, both from the University of Cape Town, and is a certified Chartered Accountant.<\/p>\n

Image over the headline.-<\/strong> Clay Johnson (CTO at Yum! Brands) and Gavin Felder (Chief Strategy officer at Yum! Brands). Both photos (Businesswire). Composition,\u00a0\u00a9 Eastwind.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yum! Brands has hired Clay Johnson, 49, as the Company\u2019s Chief Digital and Technology Officer, and promoted Gavin Felder, 40, to Chief Strategy Officer. These newly created leadership positions will partner with the global brand divisions to elevate the customer experience and accelerate global growth. Johnson most recently served as Chief Information Officer and head …<\/p>\n

Yum! Brands hires CIO from Walmart as CTO and promotes Felder to new CSO role<\/span> Leer m\u00e1s »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":14692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[9867,9868,483,734,1923,3602,9869,6696],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14686"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}