McDonald's people

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Answer 1

Elix Skipper

Elix Skipper

Elix Skipper (born December 15, 1967) is an American retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling, where he was a one-time Cruiserweight Champion and a one-time Cruiserweight Tag Team Champion, and with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he was a four-time NWA World Tag Team Champion.

Before becoming a wrestler, Skipper participated in kickboxing. Upon deciding to become a wrestler, he resigned from his job as a store manager of McDonald's in Long Island and traveled to Atlanta, Georgia to audition at the WCW Power Plant, the professional wrestling school operated by World Championship Wrestling.

Upon being accepted by the Power Plant, Skipper began his training, debuting in 1999 at an independent show. After training for eight months, Skipper made his television debut on an episode of Saturday Night. Seven months later, Skipper began wrestling on Thunder and Nitro under the ring name Skip Over, facing members of the cruiserweight division and fellow Power Plant graduates.

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Answer 2

Donald N. Smith

Donald Nickerson Smith (born 1940) is an influential restaurant executive for McDonald's, Burger King and other fast food franchise restaurants in the latter half of the 20th century.

Smith's business practices helped shape the modern operational procedures and advertising models for the industry.

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Answer 3

Harry J. Sonneborn

Harry J. Sonneborn (June 12, 1916 – September 21, 1992) an American businessman, best known for being the first president and chief executive of McDonald's Corporation.

Sonneborn was born in Indiana, the son of Minnie (Greenbaum) and Mark Harry Joseph. He was adopted and raised by his father's sister, Jeanette (Joseph), and her husband, Louis Sonneborn, in New York City.

A former vice president of finances at Tastee Freeze, Sonneborn approached Ray Kroc with the concept of Kroc owning the land that McDonald outlets were to be built on and then leasing that land to the franchisee. Sonneborn rose to be McDonald's president until he resigned in 1967 due to a dispute with Kroc, who as CEO was able to overrule him. Convinced that Kroc was leading the company into trouble, Sonneborn sold his sizable block of McDonald's stock for three million dollars and left the company, refusing ever to eat at a McDonald’s again. Selling off his stock was a financial mistake: had Sonneborn waited to sell, he would have made over $100 million by 1977, and by the time of his death in 1993, his stock would have been worth over $1 billion.

After leaving McDonald’s, Sonneborn continued to be heavily involved in the business world through the stock market, capital investments, and banking. He and his wife Aloyis founded several philanthropic foundations, and were to a great extent involved in charitable organizations and fundraisers. During his final years, Harry J. Sonneborn devoted himself to entertaining close friends, travel, and his hobby of photography. He was posthumously vindicated by Ray Kroc several years after his death, and just months before Kroc himself died.:

In the book, McDonald’s: Behind the Arches, Love (1995) the secret was revealed: “What converted McDonald’s into a money machine had nothing to do with Ray Kroc, or the McDonald brothers, or even the popularity of McDonald’s hamburgers, french fries, and milk shakes. It was Harry J. Sonneborn.”

“McDonald’s real moneymaking engine was its little-known real estate business, Franchise Realty Corporation; envisioned and created by Harry Sonneborn. The obscure McDonald’s alter ego company was based on Sonneborn’s unique even lesser known financial formula.”

Highly important as McDonald's CFO, Sonneborn was less successful in his role as CEO. The same book McDonald’s: Behind the Arches also reveals how, due to Sonneborn's conservative management style after McDonald's IPO, the company quickly lost ground to competitors like Burger King and Burger Chef. Only when Fred Turner took over did the company get back its innovative and entrepreneurial spirit.

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Anna Svidersky

Anna Svidersky

Anna Esther Svidersky (April 26, 1988 – April 20, 2006) was a teenager who lived in the U.S. city of Vancouver, Washington, and was murdered while working in a McDonald's restaurant, by David Barton Sullivan, a schizophrenic twice-convicted sex offender. News of her death quickly spread worldwide, initially through the Internet friends site MySpace, where she had a personal page, and then through other similar sites. The widespread expression of grief over Anna's death by strangers around the world was compared by The Guardian newspaper in Britain to that seen after Diana, Princess of Wales' death.

Anna Svidersky was born in Russia. Her family came from Novoorenburg, a small city near the border of Kazakhstan and about 900 miles southeast of Moscow. They moved to California before her second birthday. She had one older brother and two younger sisters. In 2001, her mother, Esther, moved with the children to Vancouver, Washington, where she has relatives, after a divorce from Andrew Svidersky.

Svidersky was a student at Fort Vancouver High School in Vancouver and worked at the Andresen Road McDonald's. She had intended to go to college after her senior year, and was due to graduate in June. The year before her death, she worked up to three different jobs at a time, in addition to her school studies.

David Barton Sullivan, who had previously been convicted twice of sex crimes, left his home on the day of the murder with the intention of "hurting a female", and according to police, did not know Anna Svidersky. He entered the Andresen Road McDonald's at around 8 pm and stabbed her with a kitchen knife.

Sullivan was captured soon after the attack. He had discarded the knife he used, but was still covered in blood when discovered. He was charged with first-degree murder, but on June 26, 2007, he was acquitted by reason of insanity and was committed indefinitely to a mental hospital.

The murder dominated the news in her home town. A dedicated page put up on MySpace by Svidersky's friends received 1,200 posts in 3 days. Internet users on other sites such as YouTube also posted tributes.

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Answer 5

Murder of Anna Svidersky

Murder of Anna Svidersky

Anna Esther Svidersky (April 26, 1988 – April 20, 2006) was a teenager who lived in the U.S. city of Vancouver, Washington, and was murdered while working in a McDonald's restaurant, by David Barton Sullivan, a schizophrenic twice-convicted sex offender. News of her death quickly spread worldwide, initially through the Internet friends site MySpace, where she had a personal page, and then through other similar sites. The widespread expression of grief over Anna's death by strangers around the world was compared by The Guardian newspaper in Britain to that seen after Diana, Princess of Wales' death.

Anna Svidersky was born in Russia. Her family came from Novoorenburg, a small city near the border of Kazakhstan and about 900 miles southeast of Moscow. They moved to California before her second birthday. She had one older brother and two younger sisters. In 2001, her mother, Esther, moved with the children to Vancouver, Washington, where she has relatives, after a divorce from Andrew Svidersky.

Svidersky was a student at Fort Vancouver High School in Vancouver and worked at the Andresen Road McDonald's. She had intended to go to college after her senior year, and was due to graduate in June. The year before her death, she worked up to three different jobs at a time, in addition to her school studies.

David Barton Sullivan, who had previously been convicted twice of sex crimes, left his home on the day of the murder with the intention of "hurting a female", and according to police, did not know Anna Svidersky. He entered the Andresen Road McDonald's at around 8 pm and stabbed her with a kitchen knife.

Sullivan was captured soon after the attack. He had discarded the knife he used, but was still covered in blood when discovered. He was charged with first-degree murder, but on June 26, 2007, he was acquitted by reason of insanity and was committed indefinitely to a mental hospital.

The murder dominated the news in her home town. A dedicated page put up on MySpace by Svidersky's friends received 1,200 posts in 3 days. Internet users on other sites such as YouTube also posted tributes.

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Answer 6

Jerome Tafani

Jerome Tafani

Jerome Tafani is the Chief Financial Officer for Europe of the United States' Illinois based McDonald's Restaurant Corporation.

Mr Tafani is responsible for approximately 36,712 UK jobs according to the latest UK Annual Report from McDonald's Restaurants Ltd. Along with a UK company turnover of approximately UK£1,075,535,000 and an after tax profit of approximately £69,296,000 for year ending 31 December 2008 per UK Companies House official document filed figures.

Jerome Tefani holds an MBA from École supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales (ESSEC).

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Answer 7

Vincent Tan

Vincent Tan

Tan Sri Dato' Seri Vincent Tan Chee Yioun (born 1952); (Chinese: 陳志遠; pinyin: Chén Zhìyuǎn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Chì-uán), known simply as Vincent Tan, is a Malaysian businessman and investor. He is the founder of Berjaya Corporation Berhad, a conglomerate listed on the Malaysian stock exchange. Its core businesses include consumer marketing and direct selling, property investment and development, hotels and resorts, recreation development, gaming and lottery management, food and beverage, financial services, environmental services and clean technology investment, motor trading and distribution, and telecommunication and information technology-related services, solutions and products.

In 2010, he entered the Forbes billionaire list with an estimated worth of US$1.3 billion (RM4.2 billion). Tan's success in the Malaysian business sector has been attributed in part to his close association with prominent Malay political figures.

In December 1980, Tan purchased Malaysia's McDonald's franchise and in 1985 he bought Sports Toto when the lottery agency was privatised by the government. Tan obtained the licence for his lottery business from a non-tendered privatisation in 1985.

In May 2010, Tan became the owner of Cardiff City Football Club after a consortium of Malaysian investors (led by Dato Chan Tien Ghee) bought 30% of the club's shares.

In May 2012, the consortium said they would invest £100 million to increase the stadium's capacity and build a new training ground, providing they were given permission to rebrand the club from blue to red. The plans sparked outrage among Cardiff supporters, who quickly organised an emergency meeting to discuss how they would respond to the proposal. The plans were subsequently dropped.

One month later, the club went ahead with the rebranding, to expand Cardiff's appeal in foreign markets. Cardiff's badge was redesigned to include a red dragon, while their home kit was changed from blue to red. The club's £30 million debt to the Langston Corporation was also cleared.

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Answer 8

Don Thompson (executive)

Don Thompson (executive)

Donald 'Don' Thompson (born March 30, 1963) is an American engineer and business executive who was the president and chief executive of the McDonald's Corporation from 2012 until 2015. He announced on January 28, 2015 that he would retire from the company and leave his position on March 1, 2015 and was succeeded by Steve Easterbrook, the senior executive vice president and chief brand officer.

Thompson, who was born in Chicago, grew up near the Cabrini–Green housing project was a bright student who started the sixth grade at the age of 10. In seventh grade he began carrying a briefcase to school. Because of gang violence and crime that began to spread through the area in the late 1960s and 1970s, he was later moved by his grandmother to live with relatives in Indianapolis, where he attended North Central High School.

Thompson is a graduate of Purdue University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1984 in electrical engineering. He also holds an honorary doctorate from Excelsior College. Thompson is a brother of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.

Thompson is, by profession, an electrical engineer who joined McDonald's in 1990 after working for a military aircraft manufacturer that is now part of Northrop Grumman. At McDonald's, Thompson designed robotic equipment for food transport and made control circuits for cooking. Thompson received a call from a McDonald’s recruiter who was looking for an engineer to design "robotics, control circuitry and feedback loops". Although reluctant to take the job at first, he accepted an invitation to visit the McDonald's headquarters in suburban Chicago by an engineer working there. Soon after the visit he was hired and enrolled in the company’s Black Career Development program, classes that McDonald’s has held since the 1970s both to educate all employees.

Having started his career at McDonald's in 1990, Thompson quickly rose on the corporate ladder. By 1992, he was promoted to Project Manager and Staff Director for the Quality Development department. He then switched over to Operations in 1994, and while there, spent his first six months learning the basics on how to manage a "McDonald's" restaurant by working at a South Chicago restaurant, moving up from fry cook to shift manager, then assistant manager and then co-manager.

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Answer 9

Fred L. Turner

Frederick Leo "Fred" Turner (January 6, 1933 – January 7, 2013) was an American restaurant industry executive, chair and CEO of McDonald's. He is credited with helping to massively expand McDonald's, introducing new meals and setting service standards for the company and its employees.

Turner grew up in Des Moines and Chicago, and graduated from Drake University in 1954.

After college, he served in the US Army.

Turner began his career at McDonald's in 1956 as a grill operator, and quickly rose through the ranks. He was named Operations Vice President in 1958, when the firm had only 34 employees. In that role, he established strict guidelines for how McDonald's hamburgers and other products had to be served - including that fries "had to be precisely 0.28 inches thick", and that "exactly ten patties had to be formed from each pound of beef". "Quality, Service and Cleanliness" became his motto. He became Executive Vice President in 1967, then President and Chief Administrative Officer in 1968. He replaced Ray Kroc as Chairman and CEO in 1977, then was named Senior Chairman upon Kroc's death. Under Turner, McDonald's expanded its operations to 118 countries, with over 31,000 outlets, and more than a billion hamburgers had been sold.

He retired in 2004, after which he served as Honorary Chairman.

Turner also served as a director for Aon Corporation, Baxter International, and W. W. Grainger. He received the Horatio Alger Award in 1991. He was a member of the Bohemian Club, and Sigma Phi Epsilon.

On June 22, 1954, soon after graduating college, Turner married fellow Drake graduate Patricia Shurtleff. The couple had three daughters. Patricia died on 9 October 2000.

Fred Turner died on January 7, 2013, the day after his 80th birthday, from complications from pneumonia.

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Answer 10

Miles D. White

Miles D. White (born 1955) is an American entrepreneur. He currently serves as chairman and chief executive officer of the Abbott Laboratories.

Miles White was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He holds two degrees from Stanford University, a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and an MBA.

White started his career as a consultant at McKinsey & Co.. He joined Abbott in 1984, serving there in management positions including senior vice president of diagnostic operations and executive vice president. He was elected to the board of directors in April 1998, to chief executive officer in 1998, and to chairman of the board in April 1999.

Since White became CEO of Abbott, the company has settled several healthcare fraud and marketing cases with the federal government. The fines and settlements have cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars.

White currently serves on the board of directors of McDonald's and Caterpillar Inc. He also serves on the board of investors of Merrick Ventures. He is former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the Economic Club of Chicago and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. He is former chairman of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, an anti-labor union organization in Chicago.

White was formerly chairman of the board of trustees of the Field Museum of Natural History, and sits on the board of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. He serves on the global advisory board at the Kellogg School of Management and is the chairman of the board of trustees of the Culver Educational Foundation, and is on the board of trustees of Northwestern University as well as on the board of the US-China Business Council. He is a member of the Business Council and the Business Roundtable and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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