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Keith Kinsey is a seasoned restaurant executive with more than 30 years of domestic and international operations, financial and executive experience. Keith joined Noodles & Company in 2005 as Chief Financial Officer and in 2007 also was named Chief Operating Officer for the company. In addition, he serves on Noodles & Company’s board of directors. Keith is charged with managing the company’s finances and business model, and is instrumental in financing growth and supporting the delivery of exceptional financial results.  As COO, Keith is responsible for aligning the field organization with the growth of Noodles & Company through strategically opening new restaurants in proven, developing and new markets. Keith most recently hails from Chipotle, where he served in an operations leadership role. While there, he was instrumental in growing the company to more than 400 units and was directly responsible for building the west coast region from three to 70 units.  Prior to that, Keith served as president and COO for Big Sky Bread, and CFO and COO for Checker’s Restaurants. In addition, Keith has held finance leadership positions with both Kentucky Fried Chicken and McDonald’s. In 2009, Keith was named a CFO of the Year by the Denver Business Journal in the large private company category. He received his bachelor’s of science degree in accounting and CPA from the University of Illinois.

Dawn Voss is responsible for guiding Noodles & Company’s restaurant development, training, supply chain and restaurant and culinary services, with a keen focus on delivering a brand-building guest experience. Dawn has 25 years of operational, development and training experience with a number of high-growth public and private restaurant companies. She was formerly division vice president of operations with Wendy’s and vice president of operations at Checker’s. Dawn also worked with Kentucky Fried Chicken and McDonald’s in diverse positions of escalating responsibility. 

Paul Strasen oversees the Company’s legal department and strategies, including developing and negotiating real estate leases and contracts, negotiating and drafting vendor contracts, handling employment-related legal issues, providing business legal advice, and managing the company’s securities transactions, franchise contracts and compliance, intellectual property and corporate governance needs. Paul is a graduate of The University of Chicago Law School. He was in private practice for 14 years until 1995. Since that time he has worked in the restaurant industry serving as general counsel for Einstein/Noah Bagel Corp., and then as general counsel of Houlihan’s Restaurants, Inc.