Dana Calvert
Vice President, International Chief Development Officer
Dana Calvert has served as Vice President, International Chief Development Officer for The Wendy鈥檚 Company since March 2023.
She leads the Company鈥檚 new restaurant development in Canada, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa.
Dana joined Wendy鈥檚 in April 2015 as Director, Real Estate for Eastern Canada. She has also served as Senior Director, Real Estate for Canada and the U.K.
In 2021, she helped launch the Wendy鈥檚 brand in the U.K. She has also helped boost the Canadian market with more than one hundred new restaurants since 2015, which she lists among her proudest Wendy鈥檚 accomplishments.
Prior to Wendy鈥檚, she managed real estate development for the Canadian retailer Shoppers Drug Mart and later for Cara Operations, Canada鈥檚 largest operator of full-service restaurants.
Dana values and practices an open-door policy with her team, and empowers her people to be Wendy鈥檚 brand ambassadors within the larger restaurant development community.
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