Chris Andrews
Chief Information & Digital Officer at European Wax Center
Chris Andrews is Chief Information & Digital Officer at European Wax Center, a newly created role in which he leads the company's digital transformation. He previously served as Chief Information Officer at Unleashed Brands, where he was the company's first CIO, and before that as Chief Information Officer at Smoothie King and at Pei Wei Asian Diner; earlier he was Vice President of IT at On The Border Mexican Grill and Cantina and Director of Systems Architecture/Integration at CEC Entertainment. He holds a Master of Professional Accounting from the University of Texas at Arlington and a bachelor's degree from Texas Wesleyan University.
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“That you treat each center store, restaurant location, whatever it is, as its own unique. And when you can start to tailor and people see the impact that you have on their business, then the adoption starts to come, right? Because once you start helping people with their, in their pockets, all of a sudden pretty good idea.”
“You're going to start into AI agent sprawl. And if you don't have this, centralized, orchestrated unit, approving what you look at and helping guide the AI and the LLMs, you're just gonna get back to where we used to be except now you have a bunch of fancy agents running your sprawl for you, right?”
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