The Mexican fast food chain Guzman y Gomez will have an unusual structure as it heads toward a potential IPO, with two co-chief executives.
Hilton Brett, who has been on the GYG board for the past five years, has been anointed as co-chief executive of the group and will sit alongside Mr Marks, the other co-chief executive. Mr Marks founded the company with its first outlet in the Sydney suburb of Newtown in 2005 and has been chief executive since 2006.
GYG has 202 locations in Australia, Japan, Singapore, and has started making early inroads into the United States. Mr Marks, a New York native, started his business career with billionaire and New York Mets baseball team owner Steve Cohen’s hedge fund SAC Capital, which has since closed. He then worked in London with Cheyne Capital and founded GYG in Australia in 2005.