KFC, a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM), is a global chicken restaurant brand with a rich, decades-long history of success and innovation. 

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Rob Swain is the Chief Operations Officer at [KFC Corporation](/org/kfc-corporation). Rob has been with the company since 2014 and has held various positions within the company. Rob was Operations Director Central & Eastern Europe from 2014 to 2016 and has been with KFC UKI since 2016. Prior to joining KFC, Rob Swain was with Luminar PLC from 1998 to 2010, where they were General Manager.

Rob Swain has an MBA in Management from [The Open University](/org/cloudworks), as well as a Professional Diploma in Management from [The Open University](/org/cloudworks). Rob also went to St Columba's College in St Albans.

Rob Swain reports to Sabir Sami, CEO. Some of their coworkers include Nivera Wallani - Chief Development Officer, Valerie Kubizniak - Chief Marketing Officer, and Nitin Chaturvedi - Chief Digital Transformation Officer.

Rob Swain

Tarun Lal has been in the restaurant industry for over 20 years. Tarun began their career at The Oberoi, where they worked as a front office manager. Tarun then spent six years with Yum! Restaurants International, first as a director of operations for [Pizza Hut](/org/pizza-hut) and then as a general manager for KFC India. In 2013, they joined [KFC Corporation](/org/kfc-corporation) as president of KFC US.

Tarun Lal reports to Dyke Shipp, Global President. They work with and Nick Chavez - Chief Marketing Officer, US.

Tarun Lal

Nivera Wallani currently serves as the Chief Development Officer for KFC. As the brand’s senior Development leader, she oversees all new store development, existing store redevelopment and asset design activities to accelerate the company’s sales growth in over 145 countries and territories and over 26,000 restaurants around the world.

Prior to this role, Nivera was the President and General Manager for KFC Canada where she was responsible for the strategy, performance and management of the Canadian region. Nivera also drove the Canada business forward while serving as CFO, Director, Controller and Manager of Financial Planning. Her compelling strategic leadership led to a proven track record of sales growth, profit growth and restaurant development growth for the KFC brand in Canada over the past 10 years. With her strategic foresight on digital off premise sales growth, Nivera helped position KFC to be the leading digital restaurant brand in Canada.

Prior to joining Yum!, Nivera served in various management positions. At [Schneider Electric](/org/schneider-electric) she was Manager, Financial Planning. Nivera was also Finance Manager with Loblaw Companies Limited, and was responsible for driving strong financial and internal control results for the organizations. She started her career in assurance and advisory services at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

She is a highly accomplished executive with extensive experience in change management, strategic planning, stakeholder management and high performance team building. Nivera is entrepreneurial at heart and commonly recognized for her impassioned approach and dynamic thought provoking leadership that inspires action.

Nivera Wallani

Chavez leads marketing, advertising, public relations, media, and consumer insights, as well as the brand's digital initiatives. He is responsible for developing and executing innovative marketing strategies to achieve the next chapter of growth for KFC U.S.

Chavez spent more than 11 years with Nintendo of America (NOA), where he most recently served as Senior Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Communications, and held responsibility for retail and direct sales, marketing, advertising and communications in the U.S. and Canada.

During his time at Nintendo of America, he led sales and marketing for Nintendo's popular Nintendo Switch gaming system, evolved the iconic gaming brand's product launch processes and led marketing for over two hundred new game titles, while helping to drive Nintendo's digital marketing and ecommerce capabilities.

Before joining NOA, Chavez spent over nine years at Yahoo! Inc., holding various marketing leadership roles, including Vice President of Brand Marketing.

Nick Chavez

As President, Dyke leverages his strategic leadership to elevate KFC’s unique and distinctive culture, shape leaders around the world, drive an ambitious global development agenda and support KFC’s GMs in the Americas.

Most recently, Dyke served as both Chief People Officer and Chief Development Officer for KFC Global.

As CPO, Dyke was responsible for identifying and developing top talent, building the people capability needed to run great restaurants and championing KFC's heart led culture around the world. As the brand’s senior Development leader, he oversaw all new store development, existing store redevelopment and asset design activities to accelerate the company’s sales growth in over 145 countries and over 24,000 restaurants around the world. Under his leadership, the development teams became the fastest growing traditional QSR brand in the world, creating 30,000 new jobs each year.

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.

A native of Texas, Dyke received both his BBA and MBA degrees from [Baylor University](/org/baylor-university).

Dyke Shipp

Sabir was promoted to Global Chief Executive in January 2022. Previously, Sabir served as the Chief Operations Officer (COO) of KFC Global. In his role, he led global operations team and drove the KFC global operations agenda while overseeing Thailand, Asia Central, and Greater Asia.

Prior to joining Yum! Sabir worked for brands like [Procter & Gamble](/org/procter-gamble), [Coca-Cola](/org/coca-cola), and [Reckitt Benckiser](/org/rb).

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.

Sabir Sami

Valerie Kubizniak is the Chief Marketing Officer for KFC with plans to relocate to Dallas, TX. In her role, she oversees all marketing, public relations and food development activities, and is responsible for restaurant revenue growth.

Prior to holding this position, Valerie spent six years working in Asia and she served as General Manager and Chief Marketing Officer for KFC Asia. She is a passionate, highly regarded marketer responsible for driving the KFC brand agenda. Valerie has worked for Yum, KFC’s parent company, since 2007, starting her career in Australia. Over that time she’s held a number of assignments and has a proven track record in delivering business results and building brand love.

Prior to joining Yum, Valerie held marketing roles at large blue-chip FMCG companies including [Unilever](/org/unilever), Campbell Arnott’s and Mars in Ireland and Australia.

She holds a Bachelor of Commerce, and graduated with first class honors for her Master’s in Business Studies both from [National University of Ireland, Galway](/org/national-university-of-ireland-galway).

Valerie Kubizniak

Shannon serves as the Chief Financial Officer at KFC Global. In her role, she is responsible for leading the global Finance function, ensuring continued growth and profitability of the KFC business. She also oversees our Financial Planning, Supply Chain Management, and Strategy functions.

Prior to joining Yum!, Shannon worked for [McKinsey & Company](/org/mckinsey-company), where she served as Managing Partner of the Dallas office and served clients in the retail for packaged goods, travel, and logistics industries. While there, she led the Dallas office to achieve record high consultant satisfaction scores and championed significant increases in talent diversity. She created McKinsey's Retail Organization service line, which now comprises 15% of the company's retail work.

Shannon joined Yum! in 2020 and spearheads the finance function for KFC globally.

Shannon Hennessy

Nitin serves as the Chief Digital Transformation Officer of KFC Global. In his role, he is defining a digital vision, a strategic agenda and working in partnership with markets and franchisees to drive the execution of our digital agenda.

Prior to joining Yum!, Nitin worked for I2 Technologies as a Solution Architect and McKinsey and Company as an Associate Partner. Afterwards, he joined Google and managed global retail sales and operations for all Google made hardware categories and was responsible for merchandising, selling, field operations and training at retail partner stores. Later at Google, he became the Director (GM), Chrome OS, US and led the US business and operations for Google’s Chrome operating system.

Nitin joined Yum! in 2019 and spearheads the digital transformation of KFC globally.

Nitin Chaturvedi

Vinod is the Chief Legal Officer for KFC Global and the General Counsel for KFC Global and [Pizza Hut](/org/pizza-hut) International. He has over 28 years of legal experience and his current responsibilities span across over 140 countries. Vinod is a member of both the KFC and [Pizza Hut](/org/pizza-hut) leadership teams, and his responsibilities include advising senior management on business strategy risks, franchising and policy formulation, corporate governance and compliance, large scale acquisitions and refranchising. Vinod is known for his high level of personal accountability and integrity, and he identifies as a people-grower and a business-enabler.

Vinod joined PepsiCo Restaurants Hong Kong in 1996 as legal counsel for Asia Pacific, and he switched over to [Yum! Brands](/org/yum-brands) upon the spinoff in 1997. During his 20+ years with Yum!, he has worked in multiple cities, including Singapore, New Delhi and presently Dallas.

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