DC STARTUP WEEK 2023: Day One | Fireside Chat with Brett Schulman, CEO, CAVA скачать в хорошем качестве

DC STARTUP WEEK 2023: Day One | Fireside Chat with Brett Schulman, CEO, CAVA

Listen in on the incredible entrepreneurial journey of the CEO and co-founder of CAVA--on how this local DC-based restaurant concept expanded into franchising, consumer packaged goods, and to becoming the first Mediterranean fast casual concept to go public on the NYSE. Watch out world! Get ready to be inspired. Prior to co-founding Cava, Brett spent over a decade in the financial world at firms, including Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown, and its predecessor Alex. Brown, before becoming the COO at Snikiddy, a natural and organic food company. At Snikiddy, he helped expand the brand from the conceptual stage to a nationally distributed growth business, which subsequently was acquired by Utz Quality Foods Brett has been named to Nations Restaurant News Power List, has been recognized by Goldman Sachs as one of their 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs, and is the recipient of the EnTERPreneur award from the University of Maryland. He champions the movement to educate healthier eating as a member of the Society of Fellows at The Culinary Institute of America and works with organizations like Garden School Foundation and City Blossoms. Brett is a Washington, DC native, a graduate of the University of Maryland, and resides in Bethesda, MD, with his wife Mary and children Sunny, Sadie, and Luke. This fireside chat is moderated by Seema Alexander, Co-Chair, DC Startup Week, Founder, Disruptive CEO Advisory. Seema is known for her award winning business growth strategic framework, the UNIQUE Method™, she has been a business and brand strategist for over two decades from Fortune 500 (supporting the repositioning of the iconic financial services brand Prudential Financial) to working with 1000+ founders and CEOs on their growth through her boutique agency - Disruptive CEO Advisory. She is an avid champion of entrepreneurship as she is a co-producer and head of growth for DC Startup Week (supporting 15,000 local entrepreneurs), an network advisor for TEDCO (emerging tech startups), mentor for the Maryland’s Equity Lab and the Ebay Startup Challenge, and on the board of Codepsa --an international non-profit. As a business model enthusiast, her love for emerging tech started with Web 3 and Artificial Intelligence—two verticals that she knows will change business and lives forever. She holds a bachelor degree from University of Maryland and her MBA from Fordham University. She lives outside of Washington DC with her husband, children, and two puppies, and is currently working on her first book, From Spaghetti to Growth—an entrepreneurs handbook to moving from uncertainty to intentional growth.