California Pizza Kitchen Promotes Three Executives: Chief Operating Officer, Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Training and Senior Vice President of Marketing.Business Editors LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 29, 2000 California Pizza Kitchen California Pizza Kitchen (NASDAQ: CPKI, known within the food industry as CPK) is a casual dining restaurant chain that specializes in California-style pizza. The restaurant was started in 1985 by attorneys Rick Rosenfield and Larry Flax in Beverly Hills, California, , Inc. (Nasdaq:CPKI CPKI California Pizza Kitchen, Inc ) has promoted senior vice president of operations Fred Wolfe to the position of chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , Julie Carruthers to senior vice president of Human Resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. and Training, and Sarah A. Goldsmith to senior vice president of Marketing & Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most . Wolfe has been senior vice president of Operations since 1997. He came to CPK CPK creatine kinase. CPK creatine phosphokinase. from Acapulco Restaurants where he worked from 1983-1997 and most recently served as S.V.P. of Operations. Since joining CPK, Wolfe has been instrumental in establishing the focus on operational execution and driving improved financial performance. Carruthers has served as vice president of Human Resources and Training since 1998. She was CPK's first employee in 1985, creating training programs and training the original staff. She spent several years in operations and on the opening team. She headed up the development project for the original CPK/ASAP airport locations with Host Marriott Services Host Marriott Services Corporation ceased to be an independent company when it became HMSHost Corporation and was acquired by the Italian company Autogrill S.p.A.. History . She earned her Master's Degree in Organizational Development from Antioch University. As Sr. VP of Human Resources, Carruthers oversees 5,500 employees. Goldsmith, who joined the company in 1990, has served as VP of marketing and public relations since 1992 and has provided marketing direction and support through milestones including the Pepsi acquisition, the partnership with the Kraft Pizza Company to market CPK frozen pizza in grocery stores, and taking the company public last August. During her tenure, Advertising Age Magazine named Goldsmith one of the "Marketing 100," a distinction given to the top 100 marketers in the U.S. Goldsmith is Co-Chairman of Marketing Executives Group, a division of the National Restaurant Association. California Pizza Kitchen, Inc., founded in 1985, is a leading casual dining chain in the premium pizza segment. The full-service restaurants feature an imaginative line of innovative hearth-baked pizzas and a broad selection of distinctive pastas, salads, soups and sandwiches. California Pizza Kitchen can be found on the World Wide Web at www.cpk.com. |
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