Mark Hawthorne

Mark Hawthorne brings more than 25 years’ of retail and franchising experience gained as an executive leading franchisee-centric brands. Most recently, he was the CEO & Executive Director of Guzman y Gomez (GyG) from 2015 to 2020. Prior to that, Mr Hawthorne led McDonalds in various markets including the United Kingdom, New Zealand and the Middle East and Africa over a period of 10 years.

In his previous executive capacity, Mr. Hawthorne developed and implemented strategic plans that turned the profitability of poor performing markets, increased the profitability of established, high growth markets and led the GyG brand with its founders from start-up to a brand that, at the time of his retirement, had more than doubled its number of restaurants, employees, franchisees and revenue.