Sarah Palisi Chapin

Current

• Partner at RADAR
• Member of the Board at Baker Bros
• Member of the Board of Directors at Caribou Coffee

• Partner at The Chain Gang
• Member of the Board of Directors at PrimeSource FSE
• Member of the Board of Directors at Sandstone Investment Group

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Past

• Member of the Board of Directors at IRM
• Member of the Board at MaggieMoos
• member at Women's Foodservice Forum

• Member of the Board of Directors at Jersey Mike's Subs
• Chairman, CEO at Enersyst Development Center
• VP Worldwide Business Strategy at Burger King Corporation
• Director, New Concepts at Pizza Hut
• college intern at The Walt Disney Company

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Education

• Purdue University
• Point Pleasant Beach High

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Connections

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Industry

Food & Beverages

Sarah Palisi Chapin’s Experience

• Partner

  RADAR

  (Food & Beverages industry)

  March 2009 — Present (5 months)

  Business Development, Strategy and Private Equity Sourcing.
  Puts companies and individuals on the RADAR by linking businesses to their respective marketplaces, distribution for expansion, or capital sources to fund support. RADAR also directs companies to clients getting them on the map to market.

• Member of the Board

  Baker Bros

  (Restaurants industry)

  June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  Quick casual growth chain based in Dallas. TX
  American deli featuring signature soups, salads and baked potato entrees, supported by specialty toasted sandwiches.

• Member of the Board of Directors

  Caribou Coffee

  (Public Company; CBOU; Food & Beverages industry)

  August 2007 — Present (2 years)

  Chair, Comp Committee

• Partner

  The Chain Gang

  (Food & Beverages industry)

  January 2004 — Present (5 years 7 months)

  Chain restaurant and franchised retailing investment and management team working with hedge fund to scale global interests-Partners Bryce King and Lane Cardwell.

• Member of the Board of Directors

  PrimeSource FSE

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Restaurants industry)

  December 2002 — Present (6 years 8 months)

  Former chair Comp Committee
  Former member Audit Committee

• Member of the Board of Directors

  Sandstone Investment Group

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Machinery industry)

  January 1998 — Present (11 years 7 months)

• Member of the Board of Directors

  IRM

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2000 — August 2008 (8 years 8 months)

  Member of the board of BI/sales analytics company offering subscription services and dashboards to the food vertical. Able to link databases to draw insight and intelligence for an enterprise. Concluded board work with the recent sale of IRM to AFS Technologies.

• Member of the Board

  MaggieMoos

  (Food & Beverages industry)

  2006 — 2007 (1 year)

  Member of the board thru the sale to NexCen.

• member

  Women's Foodservice Forum

  (Food & Beverages industry)

  1995 — 2007 (12 years)

• Member of the Board of Directors

  Jersey Mike's Subs

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Restaurants industry)

  January 1995 — December 2005 (11 years)

• Chairman, CEO

  Enersyst Development Center

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Food & Beverages industry)

  November 1995 — December 2003 (8 years 2 months)

  Intellectual property development and licensing company touching restaurant, vending, food production industries. Added restaurant R&D practice before being acquired by TurboChef.

• VP Worldwide Business Strategy

  Burger King Corporation

  (Public Company; Food & Beverages industry)

  1990 — 1995 (5 years)

• Director, New Concepts

  Pizza Hut

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YUM; Restaurants industry)

  1986 — 1990 (4 years)

  Held various roles beginning with industrial engineering career. Moved into test restaurant operations, expansion of a mobile concept Pizza on Wheels/Pizza2U, developed the first hot food industry kiosks for the Pizza Hut Express program leading to joint venture with Marriott for licensed branded retailing. Later brand miniaturization expanded, moved into role leading AllNOne efforts for Pizza Hut on cross-PepsiCo team combining Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut into integrated operations (1986), moved into newly formed new concepts group (marketing and ops) leading national mall operations and multi-unit management of Express Concepts as new concept director.

• college intern

  The Walt Disney Company

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DIS; Entertainment industry)

  1983 — 1983 (less than a year)

Sarah Palisi Chapin’s Education

• Purdue University

  1980 — 1984

• Point Pleasant Beach High

  1976 — 1980

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