Appointment Will Further Strengthen Burger King Corporation's Executive
Leadership Team
MIAMI, Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Burger King Corporation today announced
the appointment of Cedric Burgher as Executive Vice President & Chief
Financial Officer, effective immediately. He will report directly to Greg
Brenneman, Chief Executive Officer, Burger King Corporation, and will join the
Executive Leadership Team.
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"We are delighted to be able to attract someone as talented as Cedric
Burgher to our senior team," said Brenneman. "I have known Cedric for several
years; he is an accomplished financial executive with more than 20 years in
senior positions in public global organizations and is well-respected by Wall
Street. I am confident that his broad finance experience and his proven track
record in public company financial management will help us improve our
financial management and controls and grow this great brand. Cedric's
appointment, along with the appointment of Anne Chwat as General Counsel
announced last week, is a key milestone for us and rounds out our top team,
something I said we needed to do quickly when I started in August."
Mr. Burgher joins Burger King Corporation from the Halliburton Company,
where he was most recently Vice President and Treasurer. In this capacity, Mr.
Burgher was responsible for worldwide financing activities, risk management
and company and trust investments. He was also responsible for the company's
Investor Relations and Public Relations groups. Mr. Burgher was a member of
the company's senior management team and a member of its disclosure committee.
Mr. Burgher holds a BBA from the University of Texas and an MBA from the
University of Dallas. Mr. Burgher is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He is also
a graduate of the University of Michigan's Investor Relations program, as well
as of the Harvard Business School's Corporate Finance program. Mr. Burgher is
a member of the Financial Executives Institute, the Corporate Treasury Council
and the Houston Society of Financial Analysts.
About Burger King Corporation
The BURGER KING(R) system operates more than 11,220 restaurants in all 50
states and in 61 countries and territories around the world. Ninety-one
percent of BURGER KING restaurants are owned and operated by independent
franchisees, many of them family-owned operations that have been in business
for decades.
Burger King Holdings, Inc., the parent company, is private and
independently owned by an equity sponsor group comprised of Texas Pacific
Group, Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners. In fiscal year ending
June 30, 2004, Burger King Corporation had system-wide sales of $11.1 billion.
To learn more about BURGER KING, please visit the company's website at
http://www.burgerking.com.
SOURCE Burger King Corporation
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