DUBLIN, Ohio -- March 29, 2007 -- The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption named Kerrii B. Anderson, Chief Executive Officer and President of Wendy's International, Inc., to its board of trustees at its March 9 meeting.
Anderson, who was promoted to her current position at Wendy's in November 2006, joined the company in 2000 as executive vice president and chief financial officer. She provides leadership for all areas of the company, including restaurant operations, marketing, research and development, strategic planning, finance, supply chain, information technology, corporate affairs and franchisee relations. She is a member of the company's board of directors and serves on the board's advisory committees for strategic planning and finance.
"We are so pleased to welcome Kerrii to our Board," said Rita Soronen, executive director of the Foundation. "She brings great expertise, energy and an incredible personal passion for helping foster care children find permanent, adoptive families, and we believe she will be a wonderful asset in furthering our mission."
"I am so proud to serve on the Board of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, and to help carry on the legacy of Wendy's founder," said Anderson. "Dave's values are our values, and I am committed to the cause of helping every child have a permanent home and loving family."
Prior to joining Wendy's, Anderson was senior vice president and chief financial officer for 14 years of M/I Schottenstein Homes, Inc., a $1 billion NYSE company that is one of the nation's leading builders of single-family homes. Her financial career includes positions in accounting and investment firms, as well as public companies, including KPMG and R.J.R. Nabisco. She sits on the boards of several corporations and organizations, including Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp), Columbus Foundation Audit Committee and Ohio Health Finance Committee.
Anderson is a certified public accountant and earned her M.B.A. from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. She graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in accounting and business administration from Elon University in North Carolina.
The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is a non-profit 501(c)3 public charity dedicated to dramatically increasing the adoptions of the more than 140,000 children in North America's foster care systems ready and waiting to be adopted. Created by Wendy's founder Dave Thomas who was adopted as a child, the Foundation spearheads programs such as Wendy's Wonderful Kids, with adoption recruiters in 50 states, the District of Columbia and Canada to find permanent, loving families for children in the foster care system, and Adoption-Friendly Workplace, which encourages employers to offer adoption benefits to their employees. The Foundation also works with adoption advocates and officials to streamline the adoption process and make adoption more affordable. As the only foundation dedicated exclusively to foster care adoption, we are driven by Dave's simple value: Do what's best for the child. To learn more about the Foundation's work, please visit http://www.DaveThomasFoundationforAdoption.org.
Wendy's International, Inc. is one of the world's largest and most successful restaurant operating and franchising companies. More information about the Company is available at http://www.wendys-invest.com.
