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Jeff Kiesel

Jeff Kiesel

Outgoing CEO of Restaurant Technologies, a kitchen automation and cooking-oil management company serving 32,000+ restaurants nationwide

Jun 22, 2026

6:49
Did you look outside the organization? And what made you ultimately decide that the right answer was already inside the building with Alyssa?
6:58
Boy, that's a long answer.
7:00
So, uh, we, we went outside.
7:02
Uh, we didn't have an internal successor.
7:06
Alyssa was probably two years in as CPO, so while I recognize her for what she is, a special person, smart, driven, a lot of capabilities, just kind of too early, you know, to put her into the succession thought process.
7:23
So we spent, um, between Alyssa, George, and I, probably 18 months working with an outside recruiter, and we interviewed dozens of folks.
7:33
And, you know, we eventually we got it down to three or four that were pretty interesting.

16 MINS LATER

23:33
Jeff, did you talk about d- in this succession planning, have you talked with Alyssa about what the approach looks like for the first 90 days when she's in the role? Or, or how, if you haven't, how will you support that first 90 days?

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