Steven A. Davis

Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Steve Davis serves as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Bob Evans Farms Inc., a publicly held restaurant and food products company based in Columbus, Ohio.

Before joining the company in 2006, Davis worked at Yum! Brands Inc., where he had been president of Long John Silver’s and A&W All-American Food Restaurants since 2002. Previously, Davis served in a variety of operations management and other executive positions in Yum! Brands’ Pizza Hut division, including senior vice president of concept development where his team introduced the Wing Street concept. Before joining Pizza Hut in 1993, he was with Kraft General Foods for nine years. His last position with Kraft was as director of marketing for All American Gourmet. Earlier in his career, he held a series of brand management positions in Kraft’s cheese business where he launched several successful new products and marketing campaigns.

Davis serves as a board member of the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute Foundation. He is a member of the Columbus Partnership and Compete Columbus, two organizations focused on economic development strategy for the region. He served as 2007 chair for Operation Feed, which provides food for needy families in Central Ohio. Davis is also a board member of Walgreens and the National Restaurant Association.

He served as chairman of the board of Summerbridge Louisville educational assistance program from 2003 to 2006 and was a board member of Turner 12, an organization that provides assistance to lower-income children to attend college, in Dallas from 2000 to 2003. Black Enterprise Magazine 2005 named Davis as one of the 75 Most Powerful Black Men in American Business.

Davis holds a Master of Business Administration in marketing and finance from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Science in business administration from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Davis and his wife, Lynnda, have three children and reside in Columbus, Ohio.

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Tod Spornhauer

Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary

Tod P. Spornhauer is Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary for Bob Evans Farms, Inc., a $1.7 billion food and restaurant company based in Columbus, Ohio.   Spornhauer began his career at Bob Evans in 1991 as finance department supervisor where he remained for two years. In 1993, he was promoted to manager of corporate accounting and three years later he accepted the position of controller. He was promoted to vice president of finance and controller in 1998, and  senior vice president of finance and controller in 2003. Spornhauer was named CFO, treasurer and assistant secretary in September 2009.

Spornhauer participates in various professional organizations including: the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Financial Executives International, the Association for Financial Professionals and the Central Ohio Association of Financial Professionals. He is also a board member of the Dublin Coffman High School Swim Boosters.

Spornhauer is a graduate of Brookville High School in Brookville, Ohio, earned his Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from the Ohio State University and is a certified public accountant.

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Harvey Brownlee

President & Chief Restaurant Operations Officer, Bob Evans Restaurants

Harvey Brownlee is president and chief restaurant operations officer for Bob Evans Farms, Inc., a publicly held food service and restaurant company based in Columbus, Ohio. His primary responsibilities include building sales and focusing on standardizing operations across both Bob Evans and Mimi’s Café restaurants, as well as working with the supply chain management team to identify cost-savings.

Before joining the company, Brownlee worked at Kentucky Fried Chicken, where he served as chief operating officer since 2004. In this role, he was responsible for shaping operations strategy in company and franchise restaurants generating more than $5 billion in annual sales. In 2003 and 2004, he served as general manager, multi-branding/chief operating officer of Yum! Brands, Inc. From 2001 to 2003, Brownlee served as a vice president for Pizza Hut, Inc., after serving the previous 14 years in a variety of operations and management positions at Pizza Hut.

Brownlee holds a Master of Business Administration from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Cleveland State University in Cleveland, OH.

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Randall L. Hicks

President & Chief Concept Officer, Bob Evans Restaurants

Randy Hicks is president and chief concept officer for Bob Evans Farms, Inc., a publicly held restaurant and food products company based in Columbus, Ohio. Hicks is responsible for concept evolution, growth strategy, product innovation/pipeline development and brand communication. He also serves as the strategic change leader for the brand.

At age 15, Hicks started working during the summer months at the Ohio State Fair in the Bob Evans Food Tent. After eight years in this role, Hicks began working as a service attendant and grill cook in a Bob Evans Restaurant. He then joined the management program in 1982 as a manager-in-training and became a general manager five years later. He was promoted to area director with responsibility for six of the company’s restaurants in 1989. In 1994, he received a promotion to vice president, regional director of operations with responsibility for approximately 100 of the company’s restaurants. He was promoted to senior vice president of operations in mid January 2003 and to executive vice president of operations in July 2004, where he was responsible for the operation of the company’s nearly 600 Bob Evans Restaurants. He was named President and Chief Concept Officer of Bob Evans Restaurants in January 2009.

Hicks graduated from Canal Winchester High School in 1978 and the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, in 1982. Originally from Canal Winchester, Ohio, he currently resides in Dublin, Ohio.

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Tim Pulido

President & Chief Concept Officer of Mimi's Cafe

Tim Pulido is president and chief concept officer of Mimi’s Café, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bob Evans Farms, Inc. Bob Evans Farms is a publicly held restaurant and food products company based in Columbus, Ohio .

Pulido came to Mimi’s Café in 2007 as president from Shakey’s USA , a California-based pizza chain, where he served as chief executive officer since 2006. Prior to that, he was president and chief operating officer at Pick Up Stix, from 2003 to 2005, a quick-casual Asian concept with 100 restaurants. From 2000 to 2003, he served as global new concept development officer at McDonald’s Corporation. He also served for 19 years at PepsiCo in the PepsiCo Restaurants International Division, as chief marketing officer at Pizza Hut USA and in sales and marketing management roles at Frito Lay International.

Pulido has an MBA from the University of California at Los Angeles .

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Mike Townsley

President of Bob Evans Foods

J. Michael Townsley is President of Bob Evans Foods.  Bob Evans Farms, Inc. is a publicly held restaurants and food products company, with sales of approximately $1.7 billion based in Columbus, Ohio.  Mr. Townsley joined Bob Evans Farms Inc. in 2003 as President and Chief Operating Officer of Owens Foods, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bob Evans Farms, Inc.

Prior to joining Bob Evans Farms Inc., Mr. Townsley was Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, for Premium Standard Farms in Kansas City. Premium Standard Farms was the largest fully integrated pork company in the country, with annual sales of $700 million. His prior experience includes three years at Smithfield Foods of Smithfield, Va., and 11 years with IBP Inc. of Dakota City, Neb.

Mr. Townsley is a graduate of The Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture.  He has dedicated his professional career to the improvement of the meat industry as well as animal agriculture and was honored in 2007 by Ohio State's College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences by receiving the Distinguished Alumni Award.  Mr. Townsley currently serves on the Board of Directors for the American Meat Institute; he formerly served on the Board of Directors of the National Pork Producers Council, as well as the Colorado Beef Board.

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