Chris Brandt is the Chief Brand Officer for Chipotle Mexican Grill. Since joining the company in 2018, Mr. Brandt has focused on transforming Chipotle into a purpose driven lifestyle brand, making it more vsible and culturally relevant with consumers. Mr. Brandt is responsible for all aspects of Marketing—including creative, media, culinary innovation, social, loyalty, and analytics—as well as new restaurant development, as Chipotle builds more than 200 new restaurants each year. Building brand engagement and affinity, Mr. Brandt has created award-winning marketing campaigns for Chipotle and was named Ad Age A-List Awards’ Best Brand CMO (2023); Campaign US’s CMO 50 (2022); Adweek’s Top CMO (2021); ‘The 25 Most Innovative CMOs In The World’ by Business Insider (2023, 2021, 2020); Adweek’s CMO Vanguard Award winner (2020); Executive of the Year by Mobile Marketer (2019); and the American Business Award’s ‘Marketing Executive of the Year’ Silver Stevie Winner (2020, 2019).
Prior to joining Chipotle, Mr. Brandt was Executive Vice President and Chief Brand Officer of Bloomin’ Brands, Inc., where he was responsible for all marketing activities across Outback Steakhouse, Carrabba's, Bonefish Grill, and Fleming's. Mr. Brandt also served as the Chief Brand Officer for Taco Bell, a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., where he launched Live Más, Doritos Locos Tacos, breakfast, and the mobile app.
Mr. Brandt has an undergraduate degree in economics from The University of California, San Diego and a Master of Business Administration from the Anderson School at The University of California, Los Angeles.
