Management Team

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Mark Chandler holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics and Economics from Whitman College as well as an MBA in Finance and Marketing from Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

Chandler joined AmRest in November 2008 as Global Chief Financial Officer. In May 2019 he replaced Henry McGovern as new Chief Executive Officer.

He previously was working as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer for Waytronix, Inc. (LED technology) and for 23 years for Sara Lee Corporation, holding numerous positions in finance, management and operations, including roles as Group CFO EMEA and CEO Business Development Europe.

Ms. Oksana Staniszewska is a graduate of two universities: Kyiv National Linguistics University, faculty of Germanic languages and Ternopol Academy of Economics, faculty of bookkeeping and auditing. Her education was continued during post graduate studies in neurolinguistics, Open Central European University in Budapest, Teacher Fellowship Program at University College London and HR Director Program at Cornell University in New York.

Ms. Staniszewska started her career at AmRest in 2006 as Assistant Manager for multibrand restaurant, PH and KFC. In next years she played various roles in the organization: General Manager of Pizza Hut restaurant, Training Manger, Education Manager, Training and Career Development Director. In August 2012 Ms. Staniszewska took up a role of HR Director in the Russian market. Soon afterward she became Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Operational Officer (also in Russia division). Currently Ms. Staniszewska plays the role of Chief People Officer, leveraging people potential and developing leadership capability of AmRest.

Ms. Staniszewska is MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator) practitioner and ICC (International Coaching Community) coach. Her track record of HR consultancy and executive coaching expands to: Google, Motorola, GE Healthcare, Pegasystem, Invensys, Avon, Dealogic, Societe Generale Group.

Mr. Ramanurup Sen is an experienced Supply Chain and Procurement professional in the food service sector, having more than 30 years’ experience in the restaurant and food manufacturing industry. He started his career in India working in food manufacturing for a Danone subsidiary before moving to the restaurant sector working for Yum Brands, Starbucks and Nando’s. Since 2000, he has been based in London in various UK, European, EMEA and Global roles operating in both equity and franchisee business environments. His previous roles include Head -Supply Chain (Indian Sub-Continent), European Supply Manager and Pizza Hut UK Supply Chain Director while with Yum, Supply Chain Director- EMEA for Starbucks and Group Procurement and Supply Chain Director for Nando’s. Prior to joining AmRest in Oct 2018 as Food Service President, his role in Nando’s involved setting up a Group Supply Chain function to leverage the global scale of the business across Europe/Africa/Asia/North America/Australia for both the restaurants as well as the consumer packed goods division in areas of Direct and indirect procurement, manufacturing and logistics.

Mr. Sen is a graduate in Production Engineering and an MBA, both from Jadavpur University, India.