Chris Turner
Chief Executive Officer
2025 – Present
1 year (current)
Key Decisions & Impact
Turner spent more than 13 years at McKinsey & Co. before joining PepsiCo, where he most recently served as senior vice president and general manager of PepsiCo's retail and e-commerce businesses. He joined Yum as CFO in 2019 and added the role of chief franchise officer in 2024, before being elected CEO effective October 1, 2025, succeeding David Gibbs.
Legacy
Turner inherited a company reporting $8.214 billion in 2025 revenue and $1.559 billion in net income, with KFC and Taco Bell as the primary growth drivers, and has continued the digital-systems and global-development focus he helped set as CFO. His consulting background at McKinsey, followed by operating roles at PepsiCo before joining Yum, gave him a blend of strategic and operational experience the board viewed as well suited to navigating the current multi-brand digital transformation. Yum board has consistently emphasized both restaurant-operations and consulting-strategy backgrounds in its CEO succession planning over the companys history as an independent public company. Yum board has consistently prioritized executives with deep operational restaurant-industry experience over purely financial-engineering backgrounds in its CEO succession decisions. Yum board has documented this executive philosophy extensively in recent proxy statements.