Board of Directors

Ronald Shaich has served as Chair of our Board of Directors since November 2018. Mr. Shaich is the Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Act III Holdings, LLC (“Act III”), which he founded in January 2018. Mr. Shaich also founded Panera Bread Company, where he served as Chief Executive Officer from 1984 to 2010 and from March 2012 to December 2017, and as a member of its board of directors from 1981 to 2018, including as Chair between 1988 and 2018. Mr. Shaich serves in the capacity as Chair of Act III’s privately-held portfolio companies including Tatte Bakery and Café, Life Alive Organic Café, and Level99. In addition, Mr. Shaich serves on the board of directors of Cambridge Innovation Center and Farmer’s Business Network. Mr. Shaich has also served on the board of directors of Whole Foods Market and as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Clark University and is currently a Clark trustee. Mr. Shaich received his B.A. in Political Science and Government and D.H.L. from Clark University and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Philippe Amouyal has served as a member of our Board of Directors since November 2018. Mr. Amouyal has been a Managing Director of The Invus Group, LLC (“Invus”) since 1999. Previously, Mr. Amouyal worked at The Boston Consulting Group from 1984 to 1999, serving as a Vice President and Director and coordinated the global software and electronics practice from 1990 to 1999. Mr. Amouyal currently serves on the board of directors of Lexicon Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: LXRX) and a number of private Artal and Invus portfolio companies. Mr. Amouyal previously served on the board of directors of WW International and Blue Buffalo Pet Products. Mr. Amouyal received his M.S. in Engineering and his DEA in Technology Management from École Centrale Paris and was a Research Fellow at the Center for Policy Alternatives of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

David Bosserman has served as a member of our Board of Directors since December 2019, and he also served as our Interim Chief Financial Officer from August 2020 to November 2020. Mr. Bosserman has served as a Senior Advisor to SWaN & Legend Advisors (“SWaN”) since 2018, and was a Managing Director at SWaN from 2013 to 2018. Mr. Bosserman has held senior executive positions, including Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Operating Officer, at NEW Asurion Corporation, from February 2001 through March 2013. Mr.Bosserman served as Chief Financial Officer at worldweb.net from 2000 to its sale in 2001, and as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Best Software from 1992 to its sale in 2000, and led its initial public offering in 1997. Mr. Bosserman currently serves on the board of directors of BigTeams and as an advisor to other SWaN portfolio companies, where he provides financial and operating guidance. Mr. Bosserman previously served on the board of directors and audit committee of Motionsoft. Mr. Bosserman received his B.S. in Accounting from Arizona State University. Mr. Bosserman was a licensed CPA.

Benjamin Felt has served as a member of our Board of Directors since November 2018. Mr. Felt is a Managing Director of Invus, which he joined in 2009. Mr. Felt has served on the boards of a number of private Artal and Invus portfolio companies. Prior to joining Invus, Mr. Felt was a management consultant with The Boston Consulting Group from 2007 to 2009. Mr. Felt is the Board President of The Door, a social services non-profit in New York City. Mr. Felt received his B.A. in Economics from Yale University.

Todd Klein has served as a member of our Board of Directors since 2018. Mr. Klein was previously a member of our Board of Directors from 2015 to June 2017 and a board observer from June 2017 to 2018. Mr. Klein is a Partner at Revolution Growth, which he joined in June 2017. From 2012 to 2017, he was a Co-Founder, Managing Director, and Chief Investment Officer of SWaN. He also served in an advisory capacity at Anonymous Content, a talent management, film, television, and commercial production company, from 2014, later serving as the Interim Chief Operating Officer in 2017. Mr. Klein was a Founder and Managing Partner of Legend Ventures from 2005 to 2012, and a Managing Director and General Partner of Kinetic Ventures from 1994 to 2004. Mr. Klein serves on the board of trustees of The George Washington University, the board of advisors of the Mindshare Entrepreneurs Network, and as a special advisor to the investment committee of the Halcyon Fund for Social Entrepreneurship. Mr. Klein received his B.B.A., cum laude, in Business Honors from the University of Texas at Austin and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Karen Kochevar has served as a member of our Board of Directors since October 2016. Since 2015, Ms. Kochevar has served as an independent board director for private equity-owned growth companies in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Ms. Kochevar was a Partner and Chief Financial Officer of Union Square Hospitality Group (“USHG”), the parent company and creator of Shake Shack and several other hospitality businesses, from 2011 until her retirement from the company in 2014. Before that time, she served in finance and corporate development leadership roles at USHG from 2005 to 2011. Prior to her career in hospitality, Ms. Kochevar worked in financial services for more than a decade, including in private equity at Warburg Pincus and Three Cities Research (an affiliate of Quilvest), and in investment banking at Lehman Brothers. Ms. Kochevar currently serves as a trustee of the Brown Brothers Harriman U.S. mutual fund complex. Ms. Kochevar received her A.B. in international relations from Stanford University and her M.B.A., with distinction in finance, from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Lauri Shanahan has served as a member of our Board of Directors since June 2023. Ms. Shanahan currently serves on the board of directors of Deckers Brands (NYSE: DECK) and Treasury Wine Estates (ASX: TWE). Ms. Shanahan is also a principal of the consulting firm Maroon Peak Advisors, which she founded in 2009. Ms. Shanahan worked at Gap Inc. from October 1992 to March 2008, serving in numerous leadership roles including chief administrative officer, chief legal officer and corporate secretary. Ms. Shanahan previously served on the board of directors of Cedar Fair Entertainment, G Squared Ascend I, and Charlotte Russe Holdings. Ms. Shanahan received her B.S. in Finance from the University of Colorado Boulder and her J.D. from UCLA Law School.

James D. White has served as a member of our Board of Directors since 2022. Mr. White currently serves on the board of directors of The Honest Company, Affirm Holdings, and Simply Good Foods. Mr. White was the former Chair, President and Chief Executive Officer of Jamba, from 2008 to 2016, and the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Consumer Brands at Safeway, a U.S. supermarket chain, from 2005 to 2008. Prior to Safeway, Mr. White held executive roles at Gillette and Nestlé Purina. Mr. White previously served on the board of directors of Panera Bread Company-JAB Holdings, Hillshire Brands Company and Medallia. Mr. White received his B.S., with a major in marketing, from The University of Missouri and his M.B.A. from Fontbonne University. He is also a graduate of the Cornell University Food Executive Program, and he was a Stanford University Distinguished Careers Institute Fellow in 2018.

Theodore Xenohristos has served as our Chief Concept Officer since November 2020 and as a member of our Board of Directors since 2010. Mr. Xenohristos created the CAVA brand and co-founded CAVA Mezze in 2006. Mr. Xenohristos co-founded CAVA in 2010 and has, since then, served as an advisor to CAVA’s Chief Executive Officer and President, Brett Schulman, providing expertise on a broad range of matters, including culinary and brand.

Brett Schulman has served as our Chief Executive Officer and President, and as a member of our Board of Directors since 2010. Mr. Schulman co-founded CAVA in 2010. Mr. Schulman was a Partner at Snikiddy Snacks, a nationally distributed snack food company, from 2006 to 2015 and served as its Chief Operating Officer from 2006 to 2010. Previously, he held various other financial positions, including Vice President, at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown and its predecessor Alex. Brown. Mr. Schulman received his B.A. in Behavioral and Social Sciences from the University of Maryland. Mr. Schulman was selected to serve as a director because of his deep knowledge of our business and his significant executive management and leadership experience.