Kirk Tanner
Board of Directors since 2024
Experience
- 2024 – Present: President and CEO, The Wendy’s Company
- 2019 – 2024: CEO, North America Beverages, PepsiCo, Inc.
- 2016 – 2018: President and COO, North America Beverages, PepsiCo, Inc.
- 2015 – 2016: COO, North America Beverages and President, Global Foodservice, PepsiCo, Inc.
- 2014 – 2015: President, Global Foodservice Division, PepsiCo, Inc.
- 1992 – 2014: Various leadership roles (including Senior Vice President, Frito-Lay North America’s West region and Vice President, Sales, PepsiCo U.K. and Ireland), PepsiCo, Inc.
Other Public Company Directorships
- 2024 – Present: The Wendy’s Company
Notable Skills and Qualifications and Key Board Contributions:
- Mr. Tanner has over 30 years of experience leading and growing global consumer brands and is now President and CEO of The Wendy’s Company, a publicly traded developer, operator and franchisor of quick-service restaurants, with over 7,000 locations around the world. He brings a valuable consumer-centric mindset and broad experience with brand building for well-known consumer brands.
- During his tenure at PepsiCo, Inc., a leader in beverages, snacks and foodservice, including as CEO of North America Beverages, he was instrumental in accelerating revenue growth by enhancing operational performance, incubating and launching new products, entering new markets, and forming strategic partnerships and transactions with major sports leagues and restaurant chains. His experience transforming and growing brands will be vital to VF as it seeks to accelerate growth in its brands.
- Mr. Tanner’s more than 30 years of experience in leadership at companies with deep commitments to their products, people and communities, and leadership on sustainability topics, including energy and emissions reduction and more sustainable packaging, will help guide VF in its sustainability and social and corporate responsibility efforts.