Kevin Hochman

Kevin Hochman is the CEO of Brinker International,Inc.(EAT). As CEO, he leads more than 60,000 Team Members who own making millions of Guests feel special every week. Kevin is responsible for driving Brinker’s growth strategy, ensuring the company’s core values and culture are embedded in every restaurant and the Restaurant Support Center and overseeing restaurant operations worldwide.

Kevin has more than 25 years of experience working in leading global companies. Prior to joining Brinker in 2022, he held multiple leadership positions at Yum! Brands from 2014 to 2022 most recently serving as U.S. KFC President for more than five years while concurrently leading the Pizza Hut Brand as President from 2020 to 2022. In his KFC role, Kevin and his team led the KFC brand turnaround, which included new advertising, re-training restaurant teams, remodeling restaurants and making back-of-house improvements that delivered eight consecutive years of same-store sales growth for the now $5 billion U.S. brand. Kevin also led similar comp store growth success at Pizza Hut during his more than two years of tenure with that brand.