
Kate Jaspon
Chief Financial Officer of Inspire Brands
Kate Jaspon serves as Chief Financial Officer of Inspire Brands, a multi-brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes more
than 32,600 Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’, Jimmy John’s, and SONIC restaurants worldwide.
Jaspon oversees all accounting and reporting, tax, financial planning and analysis, treasury, and internal audit functions for Inspire and its
brands. She is also responsible for managing Inspire’s relationship with lending institutions, investors, and the financial community.
Prior to joining Inspire in December 2020, Jaspon served as the Chief Financial Officer of Dunkin’ Brands, the former parent
company to Dunkin’ and Baskin-Robbins, where she led all finance related functions, as well as investor relations since
2017. In this role, she oversaw global financial planning and analysis, accounting, financial reporting, tax, treasury, enterprise
risk management, payments, insurance, and demand planning functions.
During her 15-year tenure with Dunkin’ Brands, Jaspon led several transactions including the company’s IPO and follow-on equity
offerings, securitizations and numerous debt transactions, the divestiture of a brand, and the sale to Inspire.
Previously, Jaspon spent eight years at KPMG LLP as an auditor. She is currently a member of the CNBC CFO Council, Board of
Directors for W.W. Grainger, Inc., a Fortune 500 B2B business, and the Women’s Foodservice Forum. She also served as a Member
and Audit Committee Chair of the Board of Directors for MOD Pizza from 2017 to 2019.
Jaspon is an alumnus of Babson College and is a CPA.