Lucas Bravo named chief financial officer of Blaze Pizza

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Lucas Bravo has been named main fiscal serviceman of Blaze Pizza, effectual immediately. He joins the fast-casual, build-your-own pizza concatenation with astir 28 years of acquisition successful assorted finance, strategical planning, treasury, and operational enactment acquisition crossed the edifice and user sectors.

At Blaze, helium is charged with overseeing the company's fiscal strategy, accounting, treasury, and readying and analysis, arsenic good arsenic supporting the chain's home and planetary maturation initiatives. He is besides liable for overseeing the company's proviso concatenation and franchise medication and compliance.

"Blaze Pizza is simply a marque with tremendous potential, a differentiated impermanent experience, and a passionate franchise community. I'm excited to articulation the squad and assistance physique connected the company's beardown instauration arsenic we proceed driving profitable growth, operational excellence, and semipermanent worth for our franchisees and stakeholders. I look guardant to partnering intimately with the enactment squad and franchise assemblage to enactment Blaze Pizza's adjacent signifier of innovation and expansion," Bravo said successful a statement.

Most recently, Bravo served arsenic elder vice president of concern and firm treasurer astatine ICAT Logistics. Prior, helium was elder vice president of GoTo Foods, genitor institution of Auntie Anne's, Carvel, Cinnabon, Jamba, McAlister's Deli, Moe's Southwest Grill, and Schlotsky's.

Earlier successful his career, helium was manager of concern and treasury astatine Burger King for much than 7 years, according to his LinkedIn account.

"Lucas brings a beardown operation of fiscal discipline, analytical rigor, and operational penetration that volition beryllium invaluable arsenic Blaze Pizza continues to fortify its concern and enactment our franchise partners," Blaze CEO John Owen said successful a statement. "His heavy acquisition crossed franchised edifice brands, paired with his quality to modernize concern functions and thrust strategical growth, makes him an outstanding summation to our enforcement enactment team."

Owen was named to his relation successful January, joining from Scooter's Coffee, wherever helium served arsenic main operations officer. The 2 executives articulation the 15-year-old Atlanta-based concatenation arsenic the strategy experiences retrenchment amid a challenged fast-casual pizza category. Blaze finished 2025 with 230 home units, marking a 13.5% diminution year-over-year, portion income were $312.5 million, which was 12.4% little than 2024, according to Technomic data. The concatenation peaked astatine astir 340 locations successful 2022.

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