Aramark Young Professionals (AYP), has been established to drive business outcomes and support the organization’s efforts to engage, develop and retain young professionals – one of the fastest growing segments of the workforce. Their mission is to connect, engage and empower young professionals and their allies through a network that cultivates future leaders, enhances the capability of our workforce and helps ensure Aramark's competitive advantage.

Recipients Honored at Aramark's Inaugural "Aramark Young Professionals 40 Under 40 Awards" Virtual Symposium

In acknowledgement of young professionals throughout the company, Aramark (NYSE:ARMK), a global leader in food, facilities management and uniforms, is recognizing the commitment and contributions of young professionals in its workplace with the inaugural 40 Under 40 Awards.

The awards will be presented at the “Aramark Young Professionals 40 Under 40” virtual symposium, hosted by Aramark Young Professionals (AYP), one of Aramark’s employee resource groups (ERG), that works to accelerate the advancement of young professionals. The following award recipients will be recognized for their efforts in having an impact in the organization, industry, and community.

2021 Winners

Avendra Group

William Chan

Account Manager

William (Will) is always the first to adopt new programs or systems and readily shares valuable, innovative feedback with his colleagues. His tireless networking has raised the profile of CPS and QUASEP to a near household name and his client and supplier contacts trust and regularly depend on him to support their business.

McKenzie Graf

IT Technical Analyst

McKenzie is a fast learner and a motivated associate who transitioned from business (Sourcing analyst) to IT (Business and QA analyst). In both teams, she has always approached her projects holistically, allowing her to drive for and deliver incredible results.

Business Dining

Eric Adams

Chief Innovation Officer, LifeWorks Restaurant Group

Architect of the Quick Eats Brand, Eric is an innovator with vision. He was instrumental in bringing Munch Mail and Cloud Kitchen to life; alternative revenue growth opportunities for Business Dining that reinvented our offerings during COVID. He continuously works on new concepts like RoboEatz, and is an all around great thinker and business professional.

Joseph Noel

Multi-Unit General Manager

This year, Joe improved his ability to influence and lead through others despite the challenges of the pandemic and remote teams. He helped his team retain business and deepened client partnerships.

Brianne Pena

HR Manager

Brianne, HR Manager for LifeWorks, is recognized for her extraordinary commitment to the growth and development of her team and her partnership with multiple client stakeholders to build an inclusive and diverse workforce and work environment. She's also builidng a community outreach strategy from the ground up, a crucial component of her team's long-term client relationship.

Corporate

Hamzah Abu-Ragheb

Sustainable Sourcing Manager

Hamzah is incredibly passionate about his work and making a positive impact both inside and outside the organization. He has been and essential contributor in driving progress with our sustainability initiatives that focus on how the entire enterprise sources responsibly and track our efforts.

Shannon Braden

Assistant General Counsel - Employment Law

In her five years at Aramark, Shannon has exceeded every goal set for her, quickly moving from a Band 7 with no employment law experience to a Band 5 with personal responsibility for our $4 million insured employment practices litigation program. She is constantly improving and innovating, refining our existing policies and practices and expanding our work into new areas - like our class action recovery practice - that move our department forward.

Kevin Brett

Senior Counsel

Kevin provides sound legal counsel to the K12 East Region. He brings perspectives on issues that are often not expected from a legal subject matter expert: negotiation strategies, financial outcomes, and the resulting effects on the business. Overall, Kevin is more than a lawyer to the East Region, he is a trusted advisor to all of us.

Erin Noss

Senior Director, External Communications

Erin is a rock star and a respected colleague who plays a prominent, yet understated, role in promoting Aramark’s brand. As Senior Director, External Communications, she has taken on increasing responsibility over the past year and has handled it with skill and determination. Erin’s nimbleness, attention to detail, and ability to work smart and deliver results have greatly benefited the Corporate Communications team and the Company.

Nitta Thepsouvan

Senior Business Analyst

Nitta lives the Aramark mission to “deliver experiences that enrich and nourish lives” as a leader in the workplace and in her service in the greater Nashville community. Her nature is to put others first with a passion for service, with integrity and respect in all she pursues whether solving problems at work or engaging with co-workers, family, and those in her broader community.

Corrections

Stephen Grant

District Manager

Stephen is a strong leader with a proven track record of leading high-performing teams to achieve results - both financial and mission-based. Stephen is only 34, but has already had an illustrious 15-year career with Aramark.

Facilities

Tony Beasley

Resident District Manager

Hired as a housekeeper in 2006, Tony has repeatedly demonstrated leadership, taken initiative and stayed the course pursuing his career. Fifteen years later, Tony continues to lead by example while still engaged in professional development opportunities himself, including the current pursuit of his Masters Degree in Business Administration.

Jacqueline Broaddus

District Manager

Jacki personifies the Aramark value of "Set Goals. Act. Win." Her leadership, professionalism, and selfless dedication are critical to our ability to meet and exceed client expectations at the nation’s third largest school district.

Marina Jacobs

B2B Marketing Manager, Facilities

Marina quickly assumed a leadership position beyond her years within the Facilities marketing department. The pandemic hit after she had only been an employee for 5 months. However, despite limited knowledge of facilities, a frozen vacancy in the department, and the challenges of the pandemic, her inquisitive nature and “can-do” attitude allowed marketing to deliver an unprecedented level of new content, market innovation, and value for our facilities clients and prospects.

Matthew Murray

Financial Analyst

Matt is a catalyst for change and improvement, primarily with our operations team. He uses his skills and knowledge to develop tools and provide resources to help the operations team meet or exceed client and Aramark expectations.

James Nugent

Regional Operations Manager

James was instrumental in building, organizing, launching, and now operating a new "extension" of our facilities business which is currently called Distributed Services. This service has been identified as the primary growth engine for the entire line of business with revenues that will exceed $100M each FY.

Katie Tracy

VP Finance, Facilities Services

Katie is an excellent example of a young female leader who has worked hard and with integrity to be one of the youngest VPs of Finance in the company. She always does the right thing, is a role model for others, and approaches her career with enthusiasm, integrity, and grit.

Healthcare

Emily Ramsdell

General Manager

Emily focuses on the wellbeing of others and leading a team to provide the best patient care, visitor experience, and innovation. A commitment to hospitality in her workplace is only the beginning for this compassionate, caring community member.

Jimi Schloth

District Manager

Jimi just celebrated 15 years with Aramark. He has been promoted at least 5 times and now manages our food business at the world-recognized Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP.) Jimi's exceptional leadership skills have enabled us to continuously grow new business with CHOP.

Higher Education

Chanel Brown

Vice President of Strategic Partnerships

Dynamic sales professional who has delivered excellent results, collaborates well with internal team members, and cultivates strong client relationships. Chanel also serves as a Co-Chair for Aramark LEAD.

Rachel Kehm LaChapelle

General Manager

During her time as the catering director, Rachel doubled sales from $1.5M to 3M and bridged the relationship with several departments on campus that had never been supporters of our catering department. Other accomplishments include advancement and President's office. She also led the charge on COVID changes including Operational Change Plans, Campus Pause Plan, and Quarantine Feeding (on and off-campus). She is recognized as a key member of campus for the 'Meliora Miracle' which was the end of 10 year endowment push with Alumini and included the largest Alumini Weekend events in the history of the University.

Matt Rogers

VP of Growth - Harvest Table

As Chief Growth and Transformation Officer for Harvest Table Culinary Group, Matt actively develops action plans, initiatives, forecasts and value propositions to best optimize financial performance and productivity across prospective and current partnership operations. Another of Matt’s strengths is his ability to regularly network, create and leverage community partnerships to help achieve and support each institution’s missions and goals, including the establishment of grant funding to support higher learning.

International

Paula Garcia Angulo

Talent Development Manager

Paula recently assumed the management of Talent & Development and has exceeded expectations, the speed at which she assumed and adapted to the role has been remarkable. She has generated links both within Chile with the Vice Presidents and Directors, as well as generating collaboration ties with Mexico and Argentina, allowing the standardization of T&D practices for the entire region. She is a professional with a lot of knowledge in T&D, which she combines with a great ability to establish collaborative relationships, alliances, and teamwork. She managed to integrate the T&D team with her close leadership, and her personal style.

Brad Atkinson

Director of Business Development

Brad held various operations and OPX roles before transitioning to growth in 2014 and is known for focusing on the customer and taking action, as demonstrated by meeting and exceeding net new financial results for the last 5 of 6 years. Brad's strategic approach is very close to paying off again as he and team are in the final stages of negotiating a new agreement with Canada's largest new business dining account (more than $6M USD).

Diego Cerda

Head of Finance, Supply Chain

Diego has known how to contribute greatly as a Finance Business Partner to the Supply Chain Area. He has managed to generate trust, increase compliance and exceed financial results.

Sarah Foulds

Regional Facilities Manager

Sarah is a key member of the team that not only adds value in her current field and contract but in the wider business. Sarah goes out of her way to engage, encourage and develop the business in everything she does, and is an ambassador of the Aramark brand.

Katharina Johannsen

Legal Counsel

Katharina is an excellent lawyer, a talented and engaging communicator who is result-oriented with a strong business understanding. She thinks “out-of-the-box,” consolidates different perspectives and interests while maintaining high ethical standards. With her friendly character, Katharina is a popular contact person for the legal team and the business partners.

Emma Kirk

Offshore Finance Manager

Emma is an extremely dedicated professional with keen attention to detail, a tremendous work ethic, and possesses strong leadership qualities. Emma is also highly commercial and often contributes with suggestions that improve the bottom line and is regularly sought out by colleagues for guidance and advice on client and contractual matters.

Lynn Long

Senior Legal Council

Lynn's passion and engagement for serving the front line first, has made her an essential partner for the Sales success story in China. She has been widely recognized by local leaders and peers, who especially appreciate her collaborative and business partner attitude.

Clare Rynn

Key Account Director

The last 2-3 years have been difficult for the Facilities business in Ireland but Clare has been superb in her role as Operations Manager during that time. In spite of all of our challenges, she has been positive, energetic and been focussed on our clients at all times.

K-12

Justin Crews

District Manager

In his third year, Justin continues to accelerate his performance as he matures in the role. Justin has exceeded his results. Results are important, however Justin has managed to achieve those result using the behaviors of a leaders such as best practice sharing, creating the best organizational structure, and creating strong performance based relationships with his clients.

Dan Regler

VP Finance

Dan has made a huge impact on the K12 LOB in his role as VP of Finance. During the pandemic, Dan was instrumental in designing a path to meet the financial AOI targets. Without his leadership, the LOB would have suffered. He is always involved.

Leisure

Jordan Glazier

LVP Human Resources

Jordan has been a key leader in driving Leisure's performance the last 10 years. Jordan's ability to develop and coach others, build positive relationships and possess superb functional knowledge and expertise in a high growth environment has been a key element of Leisure's success.

Bob Jensen

Fleet Director

Robert's use of company resources such as Docusign and Geotab among others to enhance efficiency and compliance for all Transportation and Fleet. Robert is held in high regard as a reputable and inspection-ready operator by Derek Canard and Bob Lewis of Corporate Fleet and oversees the 3rd largest Fleet in Leisure. Additionally, he has an amazing safety and compliance record.

Refreshment Services

Erin Moshier

Zone Sales Manager

Erin has held leadership positions in Operations including Being a District Manager with Business Dining and Lifeworks division before transferring to ARS and the sales division. She has a track record of being successful in two different LOB’s and in two different divisions (Operations and Sales).

Sports & Entertainment

John Gilbert

General Manager

In his short time at Guinness, John has completely altered our client relationship. Guinness is a client interest account that is hyper-focused on their financial success. John has a laser-sharp focus on managing the P&L for the client but also driving top-line sales creatively for Aramark. Additionally, John has created an experience at Guinness that has helped us win 2 other accounts in the last 6 months. Once potential clients visit Guinness they are always blown away with both the hospitality and the food quality.

Marcus Williams

Director of Concessions

Marcus has evolved the Concessions team into a well-oiled machine. Over the years Marcus has cultivated the "get it done" culture while maintaining and growing client relationships. Marcus has elevated his leadership skills through the development of numerous managers that came in through the A2L program or other hires. Marcus has been the leader in concessions through multiple high-level events, Super Bowl, Final Four, Houston Rodeo, Houston Texans events just to name a few. Marcus was selected as a Ring of Honor inductee last year with his various accomplishments for Aramark.

Uniforms Services

Tiffany Kaelin

Manager, Strategic Accounts Implementation

Tiffany is a tremendous leader of our Strategic Accounts Install Team. She is responsible not just for the critical first impression of our customers but has worked to develop her team to leverage new technology and process within our business creating a differentiator in the market.

Eric Loughlin

Key Account Manager

Eric manages a Strategic Account book of business of over $11M in Annual Revenue and maintains a high under contract percentage and diligently works to add adjacency Revenue and grow his book.