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Purple Gold Partners

Purple Gold Partners delivers high-impact leadership talent solutions for restaurant, hospitality, and retail organizations, combining Fortune 50 executive experience with purpose-driven placements that donate 2,500 meals with every successful search.
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Website: https://pgtransform.com

Location: Virginia

Connect with Purple Gold Partners: LinkedIn

Email: [email protected]

About

Purple Gold Partners specializes in finding transformative leaders in technology, digital product, data, and AI for restaurant and hospitality organizations. As former Fortune 50 executives who have built and led global technology organizations, we bring distinctive thought leadership to every engagement - offering strategic insight on organizational design, emerging technology adoption, and leadership requirements that typical search firms cannot provide. We connect companies with high-impact talent who drive digital transformation, enhance customer experiences, and optimize operations through technology innovation.

We focus on critical leadership roles including:

  • Technology Leadership: CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, and technology delivery leaders who modernize infrastructure and enable business growth
  • Digital Product: CPOs, Digital Product Leaders, and UX/CX specialists who create exceptional digital experiences
  • Data & AI: Chief Data Officers, Data Science Leaders, and AI/ML specialists who transform operations and enable data-driven decision making

Our tailored approach includes deep discovery of your strategic needs, crafting precise candidate personas, and utilizing modern search methods to uncover passive talent often missed by traditional firms.

Every successful placement fuels our community impact initiative, donating 2,500 meals to fight food insecurity.

"Purple Gold did an excellent job of finding me two valuable leaders to drive our digital transformation. We picked up a seasoned product engineering executive and an agile portfolio executive to lead our engineering and agile practices. They joined our team and were effective on day one. Ken and Todd have an excellent knack of understanding what is needed and finding us high impact leaders. It's been the perfect fit." Paul Tuscano, Chief Product and Technology Officer - KFC
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Ken Jordan, Managing Director

Email: [email protected]

Connect with Ken on LinkedIn

Ken Jordan brings extensive experience leading award-winning global engineering teams, with specialized expertise in digital transformation and customer experience. His leadership background includes serving as CIO of Small Business and Card Partnerships for Capital One and CTO of Enterprise Functions at Wells Fargo. He has built and led global teams of 1,000+ professionals driving large-scale transformations in retail partnerships, payments, and digital engagement. Ken's teams have earned global recognition for delivering engineering and CX innovations. As an active community leader, Ken serves as Board Chair for L.A.U.N.C.H for Life and on the Policy Committee for Richmond Technology Council.

 

Todd Cornell

Todd Cornell, Managing Director

Email: [email protected]

Connect with Todd on LinkedIn

Todd Cornell specializes in building and transforming technology organizations. With deep expertise in engineering leadership, operations, and talent strategy, Todd has driven innovation as CIO Americas at Allianz Partners, Head of Digital Workplace at Wells Fargo, Fractional CIO/Advisor at Digital Blueprint Group, and a technology executive at Capital One. He also has an extensive consulting background with McKinsey and Arthur Andersen positioning him well as a strategic advisor to C-Suite leaders in restaurant and hospitality industries. Todd is deeply committed to community impact, serving as Vice Chair of Richmond ToolBank and as a Board Member of Friends of James River Park.

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