What Happened?
Greer, SC-based Ovation Brands has Promoted Patrick Benson as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
We're reinventing our brands and our company. Starting with our name. Understanding and anticipating guests' needs is critical to success in today’s market. The ability to reinvent and meet those needs gives companies a distinct competitive advantage. It's something in which we take pride. In fact, that commitment to reinvention drove our move from Buffets, Inc. to Ovation Brands. Ovation Brands. Worthy of applause.
About the Person
Prior to promotion, Patrick Benson serves as Senior Vice President of Information Technology. Since joining Ovation, Benson has developed an enterprise-wide business application and infrastructure roadmap that includes the following key projects: transformation of Ovation’s headquarters systems leveraging Oracle ERP Cloud solutions; upgrading the entire Point-of-Sale environment through MICROS Simphony Point of Sale, iCare Loyalty, Mobile POS, and enhanced PCI Security; and restaurant food production, team management and supply chain solutions powered by CrunchTime Information Systems. He will continue to cultivate these programs in his new role. Benson’s career as an Information Technology Executive spans world-class consumer product and retail organizations, including multiple senior IT roles across the PepsiCo global business, as CIO of Lighthouse International in New York City, as Americas Vice-President for Cadbury, and as Vice-President of Enterprise IT for Supervalu in Minneapolis. In addition to his requisite technology skills, Benson possesses a deep business, operations, and consumer focus to delivering IT solutions. Benson will be presenting on behalf of Ovation at the 2014 Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. This multi-day event is one of the most prestigious gatherings for cutting edge technology in the country.
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