Aramark Executive VP to Retire, Join Uniform Services Board

Posted December 16, 2022 at 3:54 pm




After 42 years at Aramark, Lynn McKee, executive vice president for human resources, announced that she will retire at the end of this calendar year. The company plans for McKee to join the Board of Directors of Aramark Uniform Services (AUS) in connection with its spin-off, according to a news release.

McKee joined Aramark, then known as ARA Services, in 1980, as a human resources manager for the company’s operations at the Philadelphia International Airport. She then rose through the ranks in a variety of key HR positions, including director of employee relations, vice president of executive development and compensation, and senior vice president for HR for Aramark Global Food, Hospitality and Facility Services, before being named to her current role in 2004 in which she has had responsibility for all HR issues affecting the company’s 270,000 employees worldwide.

“Among her many accomplishments are the crucial roles she played in Aramark’s two IPOs and the LBO and leading the HR-related efforts through our planned spin of the Uniform business,” said CEO John Zillmer. “Most notably, Lynn’s insights, expertise, and her deep understanding of the business were front and center during some of the company’s most defining times, including navigating through the tragedy of 9/11, and more recently, through COVID, and everything that changed for our teams during those times.”

Abigail Charpentier, currently serving as senior vice president of human resources and diversity for the U.S. Food & Facilities business, has been named senior vice president and chief human resources officer, effective Jan. 1, 2023. Charpentier will report to Zillmer.

Charpentier has been a part of the Aramark team since 1995, when she joined in the management training program upon graduation from Cornell University. She progressed through a variety of HR and operational positions in different lines of business until 2018, when she briefly left the company for an opportunity with Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, returning in 2021 as senior vice president for HR and diversity for all of the U.S. Food & Facilities businesses.

To read the full release, click here.

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