Chris Wren

R3 Venture Studio is co-creating the future of Restaurants, Rockstars & Retail. We build talent-backed, taste-making, one-of-one brands. A full-service investment + development platform for food-first brands with something unique to say. The R3 Platform: Like how a meal is more than the sum of its ingredients, and how influence is more than the sum of its content, R3 is more than the sum of its capital: reimagining yesterday’s Chef-as-Brand model for tomorrow’s cultural vanguards. Timeless Originality: By combining remarkable brand equities with peerless unit-level economics - and then raising it all to the power of stardom - R3 is able to scale and sustain each concept’s originality. Direct Investment with Direct Involvement: Brand, Marketing, Strategy, Finance, Operations, Franchising, Real Estate, Development, F&B Studio, People, Accounting. HQ: Los Angeles . D.C . New York . London .

R3 Venture Studio is co-creating the future of Restaurants, Rockstars & Retail. We build talent-backed, taste-making, one-of-one brands. A full-service investment + development platform for food-first brands with something unique to say. The R3 Platform: Like how a meal is more than the sum of its ingredients, and how influence is more than the sum of its content, R3 is more than the sum of its capital: reimagining yesterday’s Chef-as-Brand model for tomorrow’s cultural vanguards. Timeless Originality: By combining remarkable brand equities with peerless unit-level economics - and then raising it all to the power of stardom - R3 is able to scale and sustain each concept’s originality. Direct Investment with Direct Involvement: Brand, Marketing, Strategy, Finance, Operations, Franchising, Real Estate, Development, F&B Studio, People, Accounting. HQ: Los Angeles . D.C . New York . London .

Yum! Brands, Inc., is the world’s largest restaurant company in terms of system restaurants with over 39,000 restaurants in more than 130 countries and territories. Yum! is ranked #201 on the Fortune 500 List with revenues of over 13 billion in 2012. The Company’s restaurant brands – KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell – are the global leaders of the chicken, pizza, and Mexican-style food categories. The Yum! Restaurants International (YRI) division, based in Plano, Texas, is a powerful global growth engine for Yum! Brands. YRI functions around the world through 16 business units that are headquartered in major international cities. For 2012, YRI opened a record 1,561 new restaurants and increased their worldwide system sales by 7%. Importantly, YRI expanded Yum! Brands’ Return of Investment Capital (ROIC) to over 22% and still continues to be an industry leader. Our passion is to put a Yum! on peoples faces around the world, satisfying customers every time they eat our food and doing it better than anyone. KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell offer customers delicious food, comeback value, and customer-focused teams. Our associates around the world are trained in customer mania. The power of our people is our secret ingredient, and what sets YUM apart from the competition. Around the world, Yum’s more than 1,000,000 worldwide Customer Maniacs are striving each and every day to put a Yum! on our customers​ faces around the world. For up to date news and information regarding Yum! Brands (including KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell), please follow the Yum! Brands corporate LinkedIn page at https://www.linkedin.com/company/yum-brands

Pizza Hut, a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM), was founded in 1958 in Wichita, Kansas, and is a global leader in the pizza category with nearly 20,000 restaurants in more than 110 markets and territories. The brand has earned a reputation as a trailblazer in innovation with the creation of icons like Original® Pan and Original® Stuffed Crust pizzas. In 1994, Pizza Hut pizza was the very first online food order, and today Pizza Hut continues leading the way in the digital and technology space with over half of transactions worldwide coming from digital orders. Leveraging its global presence, Pizza Hut also works to positively impact restaurant employees, the communities they serve and the environment through commitments across three priority areas: More Equity, Less Carbon and Better Packaging.