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Inspire Brands LLC is an American fast-food restaurant franchise company. Owned by Roark Capital Group , it owns the Arby's , Buffalo Wild Wings , Sonic Drive-In , Jimmy John's , Mister Donut , Dunkin' Donuts , and Baskin-Robbins chains, which have a combined 31,700 locations and US$30 billion in system sales.
[13] [14] This deal was completed on February 5, 2018 with Arby's Restaurant Group being renamed Inspire Brands and set up as the holding parent company to Arby's, Buffalo Wild Wings, and R Taco. Inspire Brands intends for each restaurant to keep their individual brands, name, logos, and operating autonomously. [15]
Workday, Inc., is an American on‑demand (cloud-based) financial management, human capital management, and student information system software vendor. Workday was founded by David Duffield, founder and former CEO of ERP company PeopleSoft, along with former PeopleSoft chief strategist Aneel Bhusri, following Oracle's acquisition of PeopleSoft in 2005.
The Fortune 500 list for 2024 has arrived, and along with mainstay companies like Walmart and Apple, there are a few fresh faces.Among the newcomers is Workday, a finance and HR software company ...
In December 2018, under Brown’s leadership, Inspire completed its acquisition of SONIC Drive-In for $2.3 billion. [14] In October 2019, Inspire completed its acquisition of sandwich chain Jimmy John’s. [15] Inspire Brands on October 25, 2020, announced that it was buying Dunkin' Brands for $11.3 billion. [16] [17]
Raised in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, [1] Duffield graduated in 1958 from Ridgewood High School in nearby Ridgewood, where he was co-captain of the baseball team. [2] Duffield received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and an MBA from Cornell University, and is the benefactor behind Cornell's Duffield Hall, [3] a nanoscale science (or nanotechnology) and engineering facility at Cornell.
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In 2005, Workday was co-founded by David Duffield and Bhusri with funding from Greylock Partners. Workday sells software and services using the SaaS model. [13] [14] [15] Bhusri is the chief executive officer (CEO) at Workday. He is also a member of the company's board of directors, and served as chairman of the board from 2012 until May 2014.