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Aylwin B. Lewis (born May 28, 1954) is an American businessman. He served as the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Potbelly Sandwich Works, June 2008 - August 2017.
Aylwin Lewis Corporate Bio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lewis, Aylwin 1954 births Living people American chief executives of food industry companies Directors of The Walt Disney Company Houston Christian University alumni University of Houston alumni Place of birth missing (living people) American chief operating officers
Career
In 1995, Aylwin Lewis became Senior VP of Marketing and Operations Development, a job he left in 1996 for a position as Senior VP of Operations at Pizza Hut. In 1997, he was promoted to COO at Pizza Hut; in 2000, he became COO atYum! Brands
Yum! Brands, Inc. (sometimes called simply Yum!) is an American multinational fast food corporation. It is a spin-off of PepsiCo, after they acquired KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell. PepsiCo divested the brands in 1997, and these consolidated as ...
. In 2004, he became CEO of Kmart
Kmart ( ), formerly legally registered as Kmart Corporation, now operated by Transformco, is a department-store chain and online retailer in the United States and Territories of the United States, its territories. It operates four remaining Kma ...
, which shortly thereafter merged with Sears
Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears ( ), is an American chain of department stores and online retailer founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosen ...
. At this time, he became CEO of Sears Holdings. At Potbelly, where he was hired as CEO in 2008, Lewis led the drive to take Potbelly public. Lewis stepped down and left Potbelly in August 2017.
Sources
Periodicals • Chain Store Age, December 2004, p. 39. • Detroit News, October 19, 2004. • Houston Chronicle, October 19, 2004, p. 11. • International Herald Tribune, November 19, 2004, p. 19. • Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October 19, 2004; November 21, 2004. • Seattle Times, November 18, 2004, p. E1.External links
Aylwin Lewis Corporate Bio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lewis, Aylwin 1954 births Living people American chief executives of food industry companies Directors of The Walt Disney Company Houston Christian University alumni University of Houston alumni Place of birth missing (living people) American chief operating officers