August 24/Canton, Mass./PRNewswire -- Dunkin' Brands announced two key additions to the company's leadership team. Christine Deputy, senior vice president, Human Resources, and Karen Raskopf, senior vice president, Corporate Communications, bring a wealth of experience within the food and beverage industry and successful track records representing some of the world's most prominent retail brands. Each will report directly to Dunkin' Brands' chief executive officer Nigel Travis.
Deputy brings nearly 20 years of human resources experience to her new role on the Dunkin' Brands leadership team, where she will lead the team responsible for employee recruitment, compensation, benefits, leadership and development, policy development, and employee health and wellness at the corporate level. She will also develop tools and programs to attract, hire, train, develop and grow store managers and crewmembers at the retail level. She joins Dunkin' Brands from Starbucks, where she served in Hong Kong as vice president, Partner Resources, Asia Pacific Region. In more than a decade with Starbucks, her responsibilities included global staffing, talent management and field human resources. Prior to Starbucks, Deputy spent eight years with Thomas Cook based in Canada, the U.S. and England. She graduated with a degree in psychology from George Washington University in Washington, DC.