Yum! Brands COO Tracy Skeans announces retirement.

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    "title": "Yum! Brands COO Tracy Skeans announces retirement.",
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    "excerpt": "Yum! Brands COO Tracy Skeans announces retirement.\n\nSkeans started at Yum! Brands in 2000 as a finance analyst and moved through roles in finance, people and strategy.\n\nYum! Brands has announced that its chief operating officer (COO) and chief people and culture officer, Tracy Skeans, will retire after more than 25 years with the group.\n\nSkeans will stay in her current position until late this year to support the transition process, and then she will move into an advisory role.\n\nYum! Brands CEO Chris Turner said: \"Over a remarkable 25-year career at Yum!, Tracy has been instrumental in shaping the company's operational excellence model, culture, talent and long-term growth strategy.\"\n\nSkeans joined Yum! in 2000 as a finance analyst and advanced through roles spanning finance, people and strategy.\n\nAt Pizza Hut, part of Yum! Brands, she held senior finance and people posts before becoming chief people officer for Pizza Hut US and later global chief people officer.\n\nShe subsequently served as Pizza Hut International president, overseeing operations in more than 85 countries.\n\nIn 2016, Skeans joined the Yum! executive leadership team as chief transformation and people officer, working on the move to a pure-play franchisor model and the company's talent and culture agenda.\n\nShe later helped steer the business through the Covid-19 period, the integration of Habit Burger & Grill and...",
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