Mr. Carl Chapman

biography

Carl Chapman founded CEC Search LLC in July 2005. Carl has 20+ years of food service/restaurant industry and related experience. Most of his career has been spent in restaurant operations and the pursuit of operational improvement. Having served in front line management positions, multi-unit supervision, as well as franchise development and operations, Carl has a deep understanding of the need for committed, talented, and motivated team members. Carl founded two companies that provided restaurants with vertical market software solutions, IT consulting services, and financial interface programming from store-based POS systems to corporate accounting systems. His most recent position was as Vice President of the Food Service Division with a top 25 ranked office in the Management Recruiters International franchise network. Carl was recruited by the owner of The Dunwoody Group, LLC. to aggressively launch the office into Food Service/Restaurant management recruiting. Prior to that he served as Vice President of Product Development and Operations at UTA Business Systems where he led the company to be a predominant provider to the delivery industry. Routinely talking with senior level executives (including chairpersons of Fortune 500 companies) about how to utilize technology to achieve higher profit margins has helped keep him abreast of the latest trends. Carl is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy with BS in general engineering.