John Meister joined Panera Bread in June 2013 as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer. In that role, John leads and is responsible for the many information technology initiatives at Panera.

Prior to joining Panera, John worked for MasterCard Worldwide. In his 15 years at MasterCard, some of John’s responsibilities included the global Authorization system, analytics platforms within the enterprise data warehouse, and a mobile phone card authentication platform. Prior to MasterCard, John was with Accenture, where he oversaw a number of major corporate accounts.

John earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

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