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Kurt Kane

CEO at TruGreen
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Kurt Kane is CEO of TruGreen. He is a highly skilled leader with more than 20 years of experience driving increased employee engagement and customer satisfaction to achieve strong growth objectives in competitive markets. Mr. Kane most recently served as President, U.S., and Chief Commercial Officer at The Wendy's Company. In this role, he led all aspects of Wendy's U.S. business, which during his tenure grew to include nearly 5,900 restaurants and increased sales from $9 to $11 billion. Among his key accomplishments in this position were the development and implementation of strategic plans that drove the highest same restaurant sales growth achieved by the Wendy's brand in more than 15 years, reinventing the culture, structure, and mindset of the U.S. operations team, and successfully launching breakfast, which delivered approximately $750 million in incremental sales during its first year. As Wendy's Executive Vice President, Chief Concept and Marketing Officer from 2015 until 2019, Mr. Kane led the development of a new brand positioning and purpose driven advertising that reversed declines in 21 key brand equity metrics and drove digital and social engagement efforts to deliver communications that resulted in Wendy's being named "Digital Marketer of the Year" by AdAge.

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