Bob Evans Farms Appoints Doug Benham As Executive Chair - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Bob Evans Farms Inc. (BOBE) announced that it has appointed Douglas Benham, former President and Chief Executive Officer of Arby's Restaurant Group, Inc., and a Director of Bob Evans since August 2014, to the new position of Executive Chair.

It further announced that Mark Hood, Chief Financial Officer, Mike Townsley, President of BEF Foods, John Fisher, Executive Vice President and Chief Concept Officer, and Colin Daly, General Counsel and Secretary, would comprise an Office of the Chair, reporting to Benham.

This new leadership structure, which became effective August 27, 2015, replaces the Office of the Interim CEO, which was established in December 2014, and will continue until a new CEO is named.

The Transition Committee of the Board will also be dissolved when the new structure takes effect. Mary Kay Haben, who has served as Non-Executive Chair since October 2014, will become Lead Independent Director, as Benham assumes the role of Executive Chair. Benham will continue to serve as Executive Chair until the new CEO has completed a transition period, at which point the company will revert to a structure led by a Non-Executive Chair and a CEO in separate roles.

Doug Benham, 58, was President and Chief Executive Officer of Arby's Restaurant Group, Inc., from 2004 to 2006 where he led the revitalization of a 40 year-old $3 billion quick service concept.