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Hala Moddelmog, president and chief executive officer, joined Susan G. Komen for the Cure in September 2006. As CEO, Ms. Moddelmog is responsible for all aspects of the organization's management including budgets, forecasts, managing business units including the Affiliate network, policies, procedures and compliance, and the development and successful implementation of the Foundation's objectives and strategies to eradicate breast cancer. She works closely with Komen for the Cure volunteers, staff and the board of directors.
As a 5-year breast cancer survivor and former Fortune 500 executive with a passion for championing women's issues and community engagement, Ms. Moddelmog's commitment to the Foundation's mission is fueled in her belief in the power of hope, the strength of survivors and the belief that breast cancer can be eradicated. She embraces the core principles of the organization, which engage the power of the individual - recognizing the extreme value of one and the dynamic force of many working toward one cause.
Prior to joining the Komen, she served as founder and CEO of Catalytic Ventures, a private equity firm that consulted and invested in the food service industry. She was the first woman in corporate America to lead an international QSR brand in 1995 when she was named president of Church's Chicken, a division of Atlanta-based AFC Enterprises. She subsequently led Church's to record sales and profit performance. She also held executive management and marketing positions at Church's Chicken, Arby's Franchise Association and BellSouth.
Ms. Moddelmog has served on the boards of Leadership Atlanta, the Atlanta Police Foundation, the B.B. King Museum Foundation and Women Looking Ahead magazine. She is a recipient of the Women's Foodservice Forum Emerging Leader Award, the International Franchise Association Bonny LeVine Award, the Restaurant Hospitality Rising Star Award and the Roundtable for Women in Foodservice Pacesetter Award. In 2003 she received the Women of Achievement Award from the YMCA of Greater Atlanta.
Ms. Moddelmog earned a bachelor's degree in English from Georgia Southern University and a master's degree in journalism and mass communications from the University of Georgia. | 