Mon, 28 Sep 2015

Fast food chain McDonald’s has promoted David Fairhurst to the newly-expanded role of corporate executive vice president, chief people officer.

The role sees Fairhurst oversee global human resources with additional responsibility for global training.

He replaces Rich Floersch, executive vice president and chief HR officer, who will retire at the end of the year.

Fairhurst joined the global restaurant chain in 2005 as vice president of people and was promoted to CPO of Northern Europe in 2007. 

In 2011, he was appointed CPO of Europe. Earlier this year, he became corporate senior vice president, international HR and strategy, with responsibility for global design and systems.

Fairhurst will be relocating to McDonald's global headquarters in Chicago to take up his new role.