Yum! Brands Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, is the world's largest restaurant company in terms of system restaurants with over 34,000 restaurants, which includes over 2,000 licensed restaurants, in more than 100 countries and territories. Four of the company's restaurant brands - KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Long John Silver's - are the global leaders of the chicken, pizza, Mexican-style food and quick-service seafood categories respectively. Yum! Brands is the worldwide leader in multibranding, which offers consumers more choice and convenience at one restaurant location from a combination of KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, A&W or Long John Silver's brands. The company and its franchisees today operate over 3,400 multibrand restaurants. Outside the United States in 2006, the Yum! Brands' system opened about three new restaurants each day of the year, making it one of the fastest growing retailers in the world. For the past four years, the company has been recognized as one of Fortune Magazine's 'Top 50 Employers for Minorities.' It also has been recognized as one of the 'Top 50 Employers for Women' by Fortune, one of the '40 Best Companies for Diversity' by Black Enterprise Magazine for the past two years and one of Black Enterprise's '30 Hottest Franchises for 2006,' one of the “Corporate 100 Companies Providing Opportunities for Hispanics' by Hispanic Magazine, one of the 'Top 50 Corporations for Supplier Diversity' by Hispanic Trends Magazine and by BusinessWeek as one of the 'Top 15 Companies for In-Kind Corporate Philanthropy.'

Tim Jerzyk is senior vice president of investor relations and treasurer for Yum! Brands Inc. He has held this position since January 2007. In 2000, he was named vice president of investor relations. Tim began his career with Yum! Brands in 1997 when PepsiCo spun-off KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell, then known as Tricon Global Restaurants Inc. At that time, he was named vice president of business planning, a function he founded. Previously, he held numerous roles in KFC finance, which included corporate planning, field/division CFO, corporate control, and operations. Prior to joining KFC in 1981, Tim held several corporate-planning roles for Beatrice Foods and Northwest industries in Chicago. Tim graduated from Northern Illinois University, where he earned both his BS in finance and his MBA.