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From a young age, Marc worked in the food industry, starting at his father’s manufacturing supply business. There he learned how to work on a manufacturing line, meet quick-service demands, and adopt his father’s business philosophy, to make every employee feel comfortable, valued, and heard.

Taking after his father’s entrepreneurial spirit, Marc founded a retail distribution business, grew it to several dozen outlets, and sold the company all before going to school for his M.B.A. After earning his business degree from Northwestern University, he helped his father’s company reach $100 million in sales. From there he explored his own investments in real estate, telecommunications, securities, and finally restaurants.

In 2008 Marc founded MKMB Restaurants and franchised several fast-food restaurants and then started a high-end Chicago bistro. With his food management experience, Marc founded a new company, Hyde Park Hospitality, a food, hospitality, facilities, and retail management enterprise focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Hyde Park Hospitality has grown rapidly since 2012, and now holds key partnerships with clients across 25 states in areas such as contract food and facilities management, managerial staffing, restaurant brands, and airport concessions.

Marc lives with his wife and family in Chicago, where he is deeply involved in community and civic initiatives. He has served on several trustee boards including the city’s Community Development Commission and the Common Ground Foundation, a nonprofit providing leadership, mentorship, and educational opportunities to underserved youth.

Junior first came to hospitality by way of basketball. At the University of Louisville, he led the Cardinals to the Final Four in 1975. Then he played a 12-year NBA career with the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Clippers. During his playing career, Junior studied business and restaurant franchising, and he invested in his first Wendy’s franchise in 1984.

In Milwaukee, Junior bought several underperforming Wendy’s restaurants and quickly turned them around. Soon Junior became the sole owner of every Wendy’s franchise in Wisconsin. To manage his restaurants, Junior formed Bridgeman Hospitality and developed a workplace philosophy of people-first hospitality, mentorship, and promoting from within. Today, Bridgeman Hospitality has the lowest turnover in the industry, and more than half of its managers are promoted from hourly positions.

Junior has made waves in the food and hospitality industry since he began with his first franchise. He is among the top 30 franchise owners in the U.S., and he has expanded his business ventures to include large-footprint Coca-Cola bottling operations in the U.S. and Canada. Through his bottling and distribution facilities, Junior maintains partnerships that sustainably strengthen local economies in diverse communities. Junior also owns Ebony and Jet magazines, and he is dedicated to creating space for Black voices in media.

Junior currently lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with his wife and family. For his service and contribution to his community, he received the Gold Cup Award from Louisville’s chamber of commerce in 2019.

Keith began his hospitality career working part-time while attending college. Starting as a dishwasher in a hospital kitchen, Keith’s hard work and potential were recognized by a supervisor, and he began managing business functions for the hospital’s food service operation. As a student, he took on full-time work for food and facilities service provider Aramark, where he would remain the rest of his career.

Keith quickly ascended from his first hourly role to management and beyond. Over a 32-year career in hospitality, he held 16 jobs across a broad spectrum of business, including operations, compliance, healthcare, education, sales, and marketing. In 2016, Keith became Aramark’s Chief Growth Officer, overseeing the company’s multi-billion-dollar global sales and marketing initiatives.

Amid mass protest, global pandemic, and a nationwide movement for justice, Keith retired from Aramark with a mission in mind: to advance equity in diverse communities through a human-centric approach to hospitality. Now, as a founding partner of Triple B Hospitality, he is leaning on his experience to lead that change.

Keith earned both his bachelor’s degree and M.B.A. from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, where he still lives with his wife and family. As a lifelong Philadelphian, Keith dedicates volunteer action to empower his community, serving as board chairman of The Urban League and president of the Philadelphia Equity Alliance.