Phil Broad is Vice President of Food and Beverage at Alghanim Industries, he is responsible for Wendy’s Middle East, Costa Coffee Kuwait and the Slim Chickens Brand for MENA. The Wendy’s MENA team was recently awarded Franchisee of the year AND Costa Kuwait was recognized for exceptional Customer service and the team was also awarded the Managing Directors Award for the business turnaround..
Prior to Phil’s role at Alghanim Industries, he was with the Intercontinental Hotels Group in AMEA based in Bangkok as VP of Food and Beverage, and oversaw the F and B in 236+ hotels in 40 countries with more than 900 restaurants and bars. Phil worked across six of the company’s hotel brands, these included InterContinental, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn and Indigo.
From April 2009 Phil was Managing Director of Jumeirah Restaurants LLC based in Dubai where he was tasked to set up and license innovative and successful casual restaurant concepts both locally and internationally.
In the years prior to Phil’s move to Asia and the Middle East, he was managing Director in UK and Ireland for a range of global brands including Starbucks Coffee, T.G.I Friday’s, Tesco and Pizza Hut UK. On top of these, Phil has also owned and operated his own restaurant company in the UK between 2000 and 2006.