Chris Penny joined CAVA in 2015 as Chief Operating Officer of CAVA Foods, the company’s consumer packaged goods business. He was named Chief Manufacturing Officer of CAVA in 2018. In addition to his work as a financial research advisor, Chris spent six years as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy at Transaction Network Services and, from 1998 to 2007, was Managing Director in Technology Research for Friedman Billings Ramsey. He served for six years in the U.S. Navy Submarine Force. Chris has a B.A. in Computers from Notre Dame and an M.B.A. from Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business.