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Steve Davis serves as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Bob Evans Farms Inc. Before joining the company in 2006, Davis worked at Yum! Brands Inc., where he had been president of Long John Silver's and A&W All-American Food Restaurants since 2002.
Previously, Davis served in a variety of operations management and other executive positions in Yum! Brands' Pizza Hut division, including senior vice president of concept development where his team introduced the Wing Street concept. Before joining Pizza Hut in 1993, he was with Kraft General Foods for nine years. His last position with Kraft was as director of marketing for All American Gourmet.
Earlier in his career, he held a series of brand management positions in Kraft's cheese business where he launched several successful new products and marketing campaigns.
Davis currently chairs Operation Feed, which provides food for needy families in Central Ohio. Davis is also a board member of EMBARQ Corp. ($6 billion company), which provides local and long distance voice, data, high speed Internet, wireless and entertainment services to customers in its serving areas. Davis served as chairman of the board of Summerbridge Louisville educational assistance program from 2003 to 2006 and was a board member of Turner 12, an organization that provides assistance to lower-income children to attend college, in Dallas from 2000 to 2003. Black Enterprise Magazine 2005 named Davis as one of the 75 Most Powerful Black Men in American Business.
Davis holds a Master of Business Administration in marketing and finance from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Science in business administration from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
Davis and his wife, Lynnda, have three children. | 