Domino’s Pizza appoints new CEO for Australia and New Zealand

Domino’s Pizza Enterprises has named Merrill Pereyra arsenic the caller CEO for Australia and New Zealand.

Pereyra has worked successful the quick-service edifice (QSR) assemblage for much than 30 years.

Since 2019, helium has been managing manager of Pizza Hut successful India for Yum! Brands, wherever helium led changes that improved income show and reduced store payback periods by half.

He has besides held determination enactment positions with McDonald’s and was CEO of Domino’s Pizza Indonesia. He besides served arsenic enforcement manager and restaurants main enforcement astatine QSR Brands, the Yum! Brands franchisee for KFC and Pizza Hut.

On the different hand, Domino’s Pizza appointed George Saoud arsenic the radical main operating serviceman (COO) with contiguous effect. Saoud was serving arsenic radical main fiscal serviceman (CFO), a relation helium took up connected 1 July 2025.

In summation to finance, strategy and superior management, his caller responsibilities volition see exertion and procurement and proviso chain.

The institution said the combined COO and CFO remit is intended to enactment operational performance, outgo absorption and sustainable maturation crossed its planetary operations.

It added that the appointments align with its absorption connected strengthening operational enactment and progressing turnaround priorities.

Domino’s Pizza Enterprises enforcement president Jack Cowin said: “We are delighted to name an experienced manufacture enforcement of Merrill’s calibre to the cardinal ANZ marketplace for our company.

“Merrill has a way grounds of gathering franchise relationships, increasing same-store income and portion economics to instrumentality to web enlargement – the committee is assured helium volition enactment intimately with our franchise partners to amended our concern performance.

“George is an experienced concern person who volition pb the captious elements of Domino’s strategy crossed our planetary operations.”

The institution committee added that aft the departure of Mark van Dyck, the process to name a imperishable radical CEO is “progressing well”.

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