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Leadership at Restaurant Technologies

This strong team of leaders reminds us to always put our customers first. They have inspired us to be the go-to experts in our field and we are proud of their vision for the future of Restaurant Technologies.

Jeffrey R. Kiesel

President and Chief Executive Officer

With more than 30 years of senior leadership experience, Jeff Kiesel is both the head and heart of Restaurant Technologies. He led the company to expand into a national service provider, established a new products team that has successfully launched a series of value-added services, and continues to lead the evolution of an innovative and highly engaged team of over 1,500. Jeff joined in 2005 as CEO and stands by the set of values we call the 5 C’s: customer, character, commitment, courage and community. These values ensure that we put our customers and our community first—never being afraid to reach out to help, lead by example and put our best foot forward. To read more about Jeffrey’s background, click on “Read Bio” to view his full bio.
Robert E. Weil - Chief Financial Officer - Restaurant Technologies

Robert E. Weil

Chief Financial
Officer

Alissa Partee - Chief People Officer - Restaurant Technologies

Alissa Partee

Chief People
Officer

Lisa Merryfield - Vice President, McDonald's Business Unit - Restaurant Technologies

Lisa Merryfield

Vice President, McDonald's Business Unit

Andy Dulka - Chief Information Officer - Restaurant Technologies

Andy Dulka

Chief Information
Officer

Diana Geseking - General Counsel and Secretary - Restaurant Technologies

Diana Geseking

General Counsel &
Secretary

David Wolf - Vice President, Finance - Restaurant Technologies

David Wolf

Vice President,
Finance

Josh Renihan - Vice PResident, Field Sales - Restaurant Technologies

Josh Renihan

Vice President,
Field Sales

Joe Clausi, Vice President of National Accounts, Restaurant Technologies Inc.

Joe Clausi

Vice President, National Accounts

Chris Hellmann

Chris Hellmann

Chief Commercial Officer

Jeffrey R. Kiesel

President and Chief Executive Officer

With more than 30 years of senior leadership experience, Jeff Kiesel is both the head and heart of Restaurant Technologies. He led the company to expand into a national service provider, established a new products team that has successfully launched a series of value-added services, and continues to lead the evolution of an innovative and highly engaged team of over 1,500. Jeff joined in 2005 as CEO and stands by the set of values we call the 5 C’s: customer, character, commitment, courage and community. These values ensure that we put our customers and our community first—never being afraid to reach out to help, lead by example and put our best foot forward. As part of this commitment, Jeff drives the Restaurant Technologies Cares program and is Chairman of the RT Educational Foundation. He also serves as the chairperson of the CEO Connection Talent Management Committee, and serves on the Nixon Medical Board of Directors and the SALO Advisory Board.

Jeff held previous positions as CEO, president and senior vice president in both large and small companies across multiple industries, including 18 years with GE and GE Capital, and C-level positions with G&K Services and VIZTA3D Inc., and has served as a Board Director for Nixon Medical, Salo, and Omni Cable.

Jeff earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Williams College, Williamstown, MA, and an MBA from the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University. Family and fitness are passions for Jeff, including joining the Restaurant Technologies Team competing in Tough Mudder events.

Robert E. Weil

Chief Financial Officer

As chief financial officer, Bob Weil contributes significantly to the strategic direction of Restaurant Technologies as we continue to grow. With more than 25 years of finance and management experience, Bob brings perspective from the fast-paced world of air transport, having held financial management positions with MAIR Holdings (the parent company of Mesaba and Big Sky Airlines) and Northwest Airlines (now Delta). As a member of the team since 2007, Bob’s key accomplishments include recapitalizing the company’s new debt and equity financings in 2009 as well as executing the sale to EQT Partners in 2011 and to Aurora Capital in 2015. In 2015 Bob was selected as CFO of the year by Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal.

Bob is a graduate of Northwestern University with a bachelor’s degree in economics and holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Business. An avid cyclist, Bob bikes to work and has completed the 100-mile-long Century Ride for Tour de Cure every year since 2012.

Alissa Partee

Chief People Officer

Alissa Partee joins Restaurant Technologies as the organization’s Chief People Officer after nearly 3 years with the Caribou Coffee Company (including Einstein Noah Restaurant Group) in a similar role.

Known for establishing high-performing Human Capital teams, she ensures that her team partners with the organization on all people-related matters including: Talent Acquisition, HR Technology, Learning & Development, Total Rewards, and strategic HR Business Partnership. Prior to Caribou, Alissa spent over 7 years with The Marvin Companies leading the Human Resources team in various capacities. Marvin relied on Alissa to help ensure their craftsmen and employees, nearly 6,000 manufacturing employees and leaders across the U.S., felt empowered in their roles, supported through programs and benefits and developed in their careers.

Alissa also spent her earlier career (2007 – 2010) with Buffalo Wild Wings, Inc.—a blazing hot fast-casual restaurant company in the Minneapolis, MN area. Under the leadership of Sally Smith and Mary Twinem, Alissa was part of the high-growth mode for BWW, opening multiple stores a week and earning double-digit top-line and bottom-line growth. Prior to BWW, Alissa was in Chicago, IL with a boutique executive compensation & consulting firm, The Delves Group.

When it comes to business, she pushes for clarity and focus and can often be heard reminding people: “It’s really easy to over-complicate something, but it’s really difficult to over-simplify it.” Alissa enjoys time outside of work with her husband, Justin, of 11 years, their 3 children: Carter, Reese and Charlotte and their furriest “child” Sully, their mini-Labradoodle. They spend their time traveling, being outdoors and whipping up new recipes in their kitchen. She has a bachelor’s in Human Resource Development from the University of Minnesota, and a dual-concentration MBA in Corporate Finance and Human Resources Management from Kellstadt Graduate School of Business (DePaul University) in Chicago, Illinois.

Lisa Merryfield

Vice President, McDonald's Business Unit

Lisa Merryfield was one of the original founders of Restaurant Technologies in 1997. With this tenure and loyalty as her background, she has been the key executive assigned to McDonald’s since inception. In addition to developing the strategy to grow and maintain our core business with McDonald’s, Lisa’s focused on understanding where the top quick service restaurant brand is headed in the future to identify new business opportunities where we can add value and expand its partnership with the McDonald’s System.

Prior to taking the founder’s leap, Lisa gained national chain and franchisee community experience as the McDonald’s Account Manager for MVE, Inc. and worked for The Limited Corporation. She holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and in her free time, she loves to travel and try the latest culinary trends.

Andy Dulka

Chief Information Officer

Andy Dulka is Restaurant Technologies’ Chief Information Officer. In this role he provides leadership for the continued development of an innovative, scalable, and secure technology environment for all of Restaurant Technologies. He brings his passion and over 25 years of experience of applying technology to enable business success, drive operational efficiency and develop high-performing teams.

Prior to joining Restaurant Technologies, Andy was the Chief Information Officer at Starkey Hearing Technologies, where he drove business enablement, operational focus, and leadership development furthering the company’s innovation and market position. Preceding Starkey, Andy served in a variety of IT leadership roles at Regis Corporation, Allianz Life, and Best Buy.

Andy holds an individualized Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics/Computer Science from Saint John’s University.

Diana Geseking

General Counsel & Secretary

Diana Geseking is General Counsel and Secretary for Restaurant Technologies where she advises senior leadership on a wide array of legal issues. She oversees a variety of legal functions across the business and brings diversified experience in contract negotiation, business transactions, corporate governance, intellectual property, risk mitigation, compliance and regulatory matters, privacy, advertising/marketing, employment and labor, and litigation management. She joined Restaurant Technologies in 2019.

Prior to Restaurant Technologies, Diana worked for Dyson, Inc. where she was General Counsel and Secretary for the company’s Americas Division. There, she was responsible for the strategic direction on all legal and regulatory issues that impact the North American business of the organization and advised senior executives on a broad range of matters to achieve business goals and deliver innovative technology. Prior to joining Dyson, Diana was a litigation associate at Sedgwick, LLC where she advised national and international companies on all aspects of state and federal litigation involved in contract, real estate, leasing, copyright, eminent domain, insurance liability, antitrust actions and more.

Diana is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Amherst College.

David Wolf

Vice President, Finance

David Wolf is a longtime Restaurant Technologies employee and executive, leading finance since 2007. As Vice President of Finance, David oversees a high-performing team of employees in supply chain, accounting, internal audit and treasury. David not only manages significant financial transactions for the company but also leads the development of internal audit and treasury functions. David was also a key participant in due diligence, deal structuring and integration for multiple acquisitions, and an integral part of selling the company on multiple occasions. He also developed the overall vision of the company’s supply chain organization.

Before coming to Restaurant Technologies, David held positions in risk management, audit and finance with Pulte Homes of Minnesota, Best Buy Co. Inc., and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

David holds a Bachelor of Accountancy from the University of North Dakota and CPA (inactive) and CMA license.

Josh Renihan

Vice President, Field Sales

Josh Renihan is Vice President of Field Sales for Restaurant Technologies. Josh is responsible for the development and execution of sales strategy to increase Restaurant Technologies’ market shares across new and existing customers. He has a strong background leading cross-functional teams to successfully execute against business, sales and profitability targets.

Bringing over 20 years of experience in managing multimillion-dollar sales and product marketing portfolios, Josh’s recent experience includes turning around under-performing business units to position for long-term, sustained growth.

Josh served as Director of U.S. Channel Sales for Abbott Laboratories Inc. and Vice President of Sales for U.S. Healthcare at Essity AB Inc., after a lengthy tenure at Kimberly-Clark Corp. holding various leadership positions.

Josh has a Bachelor of Science from the University of North Carolina – Asheville.

Joe Clausi

Vice President, National Accounts

Joe Clausi serves as Vice President of National Accounts, responsible for building, refining, and scaling high-performing sales teams and operations while providing profitable enterprise, segments, and business unit results.

Before joining Restaurant Technologies, Joe was the Regional VP for ImageFirst Laundry Services and VP for National Accounts with Aramark.

A proud and enthusiastic leader, Joe works with teams to sharpen their collaborative skills in identifying and resolving obstacles to business performance and growth — empowering them to increase profitable sales performance and provide a best-in-class customer experience for Restaurant Technologies’ internal and external customers.

He is a graduate of the University of Utah (GO UTES!) and loves reading, being active, good people, great food, bourbon, and anything with a motor that can be used outdoors.

Chris Hellmann

Chief Commercial Officer

Chris Hellmann is the Chief Commercial Officer at Restaurant Technologies and brings over three decades of foodservice industry experience. As the CCO, Chris leads all commercial functions for the organization including commercial operations, sales, marketing, and product.

Chris began his career at BBDO and transition to Coca-Cola where he spent 29 years with his last five years as the Vice President and General Manager of the equipment innovation center including the Coca-Cola Freestyle business. In this role, he was responsible for leading The Coca-Cola Equipment Innovation Center and technical R/D team encompassing strategy, marketing, customer and commercial leadership, innovation, equipment & software engineering, supply chain development and e-business.

Chris received a B.S. in Journalism from Ohio University, and a Masters in Marketing from Johns Hopkins University – Carey School of Business.

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Tim Curran

Chief Operations Officer

Tim Curran is Chief Operations Officer for Restaurant Technologies where he oversees the company’s operations team and helps lead its nationwide service and distribution networks. Tim is a strategic leader with a commitment to continuous improvement and execution. Tim also holds a Six Sigma Green Belt.

Before joining Restaurant Technologies in 2019, Tim held senior leadership positions at Binswanger Glass and G&K Services. Tim also had leadership experience at AlliedSignal/Honeywell, OMNOVA Solutions, and WebMD.

Tim received his MBA from Case Western Reserve University and his bachelor’s degree from Williams College.

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