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Dr. Randy Ross is an executive advisor, bestselling author, and leadership strategist who helps CEOs, senior leaders, and organizations build cultures where people and performance thrive.

As the founder and CEO of Remarkable!, Randy has spent more than three decades advising leaders on the human dynamics that shape organizational performance. His work centers on strengthening leadership alignment, increasing accountability, improving communication, developing high-performing teams, and creating workplace cultures capable of sustaining exceptional results.

Randy has worked with respected organizations including GE Appliances, Cox Communications, Compass Group, Chick-fil-A, Delta Air Lines, Keller Williams, and IHG. Across these engagements, he has helped leaders translate organizational purpose into practical behaviors, operating rhythms, and cultural disciplines that employees can understand, embrace, and consistently execute.

He is the author of multiple books, including the #1 bestseller Remarkable! and Make Life Good. His frameworks equip leaders to build relationally rich environments that attract talent, strengthen engagement, improve the customer experience, and produce meaningful business outcomes.

Randy brings an uncommon combination of strategic insight, executive-level perspective, and practical leadership application. He understands that culture is not created through slogans or isolated initiatives. It is shaped by the decisions leaders make, the standards they reinforce, the conversations they conduct, and the behaviors they consistently model.

As an Executive Advisor with Catalyst, Randy partners with CEOs, boards, owners, and executive teams navigating growth, cultural transformation, leadership transitions, organizational alignment, and strategic change. His counsel helps leaders clarify what matters most, align people around a compelling direction, strengthen accountability, and establish the leadership disciplines required for sustainable performance.

Randy believes that when you grow your people, your people will grow the business. Remarkable organizations emerge when exceptional leadership becomes a daily practice—and when people are inspired to work together to create value, serve others, and make life good.

Fabio Viviani is a celebrity chef, restaurateur, TV personality, best-selling cookbook author, and the Founder and CEO of Fabio Viviani Hospitality.

Born and raised in Florence, Italy, he owned and operated seven restaurants, a farmhouse, and two nightclubs by the age of 27 before moving to the United States in 2005. In 2008 he competed on Bravo's Top Chef, where America voted him “Fan Favorite,” and he and his concepts have been a familiar face on TV ever since, with over a billion impressions in the last few years.

Today his company is one of the leading and fastest-growing privately owned restaurant groups in the country, serving over 10 million meals every year across more than 40 restaurants and event venues in the United States, including full-service restaurants, bars, hotels, casinos, corporate dining, and event spaces.

What Fabio and his team bring to the table is the full package: real culinary talent, hands-on experience running and scaling restaurants, and a proven track record building brands people love. He knows how to create places where the food is great, the service is warm, and the business makes sound financial decisions.

Fabrizio Di Rienzo is a seasoned hospitality executive and operator with deep expertise in restaurant operations, beverage strategy, concept development, and team leadership.

Born and educated in Piemonte, Italy, Fabrizio began his hospitality training at an early age and became a certified sommelier before building an international career across restaurants, hotels, and multi-unit hospitality organizations. His background combines European service culture and wine knowledge with a practical understanding of the American hospitality market.

Fabrizio is known for turning hospitality concepts into organized, consistent, and profitable operations. His expertise includes restaurant openings, operational systems, service standards, cost controls, beverage-program development, staff training, leadership development, guest experience, and performance improvement.

Unlike consultants who approach hospitality only from a strategic perspective, Fabrizio has spent his career working directly alongside owners, chefs, managers, and frontline teams. He understands how to translate an ambitious vision into procedures that employees can follow, leaders can manage, and guests can feel.

His beverage expertise extends beyond selecting wines or creating cocktail lists. Fabrizio develops complete beverage strategies that consider concept identity, pricing, profitability, purchasing, inventory control, staff education, storytelling, and the overall guest experience.

As an advisor, educator, and industry expert, Fabrizio brings credibility, clarity, and an operator's perspective to conversations about restaurant performance, hospitality trends, wine, beverage strategy, leadership, and the future of the guest experience.

Patrick McMahon is a senior operating executive with more than 25 years of experience helping organizations scale, improve performance, and navigate periods of growth and transformation. Throughout his career, he has partnered with founders, private equity investors, boards, and executive leadership teams to build operating disciplines that drive sustainable enterprise value.

Patrick has led complex, multi-site organizations supporting more than $500 million in annual revenue, 186,000 customer locations, and a network of 32,000+ service partners. His experience spans operations, P&L leadership, strategic planning, organizational design, mergers and integrations, business process outsourcing (BPO), procurement, field services, customer experience, and enterprise performance management.

He is recognized for his creativity, developing scalable operating models, strengthening leadership teams, implementing KPI-driven governance, and aligning strategy with execution. His ability to simplify complexity and establish organizational accountability has enabled businesses to improve profitability, enhance customer outcomes, and support long-term growth.

Throughout his career, Patrick has held executive leadership positions with Lessen, Compass Group, and Groome Transportation, where he led large-scale operations across diverse industries and guided organizations through rapid expansion, operational transformation, and change.

Patrick lives in Elmhurst, Illinois, with his wife and their four children. He has a longstanding commitment to community leadership, having served on nonprofit and youth sports boards. He believes the strongest organizations are built on a foundation of servant leadership, disciplined execution, and an unwavering commitment to developing people.

Daniel Young is a hospitality, commercial strategy, and financial performance executive with more than 25 years of experience helping organizations increase revenue, improve profitability, and create long-term enterprise value.

His career spans hotels, resorts, casinos, destination properties, and hospitality management organizations, where he has led revenue management, pricing strategy, forecasting, financial planning & analysis (FP&A), commercial strategy, and business planning for both single-property and multi-property portfolios.

Throughout his career, Daniel has worked with internationally recognized organizations including Walt Disney World, Choice Hotels International, Colonial Williamsburg, Boyd Gaming, Embassy Suites, and other leading hospitality companies. He has partnered closely with executive leadership, operations, sales, marketing, finance, and ownership groups to develop strategies that drive sustainable revenue growth while improving operational and financial performance.

Daniel's expertise includes revenue optimization, demand forecasting, pricing strategy, budgeting, financial modeling, capital investment analysis, business intelligence, market analysis, revenue management systems, and executive decision support. He has extensive experience translating complex market and financial data into practical business strategies that improve profitability, strengthen competitive positioning, and create long-term value.

In recent years, Daniel has also served as an independent hospitality consultant, advising organizations on commercial strategy, financial performance, organizational planning, and revenue optimization. His collaborative leadership style and analytical approach enable him to bridge finance, operations, and commercial strategy while helping organizations solve complex business challenges.

Daniel enjoys partnering with executive teams to evaluate strategic opportunities, challenge assumptions, and help organizations make informed decisions that balance growth, profitability, and long-term value creation.

Daniel holds an MBA in Finance from Kent State University and is a Certified Revenue Management Executive (CRME) through HSMAI. He also proudly served in the United States Marine Corps, an experience that continues to shape his leadership philosophy of discipline, integrity, accountability, and service.

Daniel is particularly recognized for his ability to connect commercial strategy with operational execution, helping leadership teams make better decisions through a combination of financial analysis, revenue optimization, and practical operational insight.

George Collado is the Founder and CEO of MyFieldAudits, an operational intelligence and quality assurance company that helps multi-site organizations turn their standards into consistent action across every location.

For more than a decade, George has worked alongside executive leaders in contract foodservice, corporate dining, senior living, healthcare, and other complex operating environments. His work focuses on closing the gap between what an organization expects to happen and what actually happens in the field.

Under George's leadership, MyFieldAudits has evolved beyond traditional inspection software into a comprehensive approach to operational performance. The company combines technology, program design, implementation, training, analytics, and ongoing support to help organizations strengthen accountability, identify risk, improve compliance, and create greater consistency across distributed operations.

George brings the perspective of both a technology founder and a hands-on operational strategist. He is particularly skilled at identifying operational drift, translating frontline activity into decision-ready intelligence, and designing systems that remain effective through growth, turnover, and organizational change. His approach challenges organizations to move beyond checklists and isolated inspections toward operating disciplines that continuously improve performance.

As an advisor with Catalyst, George supports hospitality and foodservice leaders navigating operational transformation, quality assurance, multi-site growth, technology adoption, and data-driven performance management. He helps leadership teams build practical systems that create visibility, strengthen execution, and make excellence repeatable across every location.

George believes the strongest operations do not depend on heroic individuals or last-minute oversight. They give teams the structure, intelligence, and accountability required to perform consistently every day.

Darius N. Peacock is an accomplished corporate executive, entrepreneur, and nationally recognized culinary leader whose career spans more than four decades across healthcare, hospitality, education, and large-scale foodservice operations.

Throughout his career, Darius has built a reputation for combining culinary vision with operational discipline, financial accountability, and people-centered leadership. As Corporate Executive Chef for Morrison Healthcare, he provided leadership across a four-state portfolio representing more than $100 million in managed volume. He also played an instrumental role in securing and executing several of the company's most significant client transitions, including Yale New Haven Health, Mount Sinai Health System, and Cleveland Clinic.

His executive experience extends into the hotel industry, where he served as Corporate Executive Chef for a major hotel organization and helped open properties in Midtown Manhattan. Working across both healthcare and luxury hospitality gave Darius an uncommon ability to understand the relationship between brand promise, operational execution, customer experience, organizational culture, and financial performance.

Darius later brought that leadership to K-12 foodservice, overseeing an operation serving approximately 14,000 students across 14 schools. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he helped mobilize the organization to provide more than two million meals to children and families while protecting employees and maintaining essential community services.

Beyond the executive suite, Darius earned national recognition as both the Season 1 and Season 2 Champion of Food Network's Chopped. His success reflects the preparation, adaptability, creativity, and composure under pressure that have defined his broader leadership career.

Today, Darius serves as Managing Partner of Pavonine Holdings LLC and founder of Pavonine Media. As an entrepreneur, he brings an owner's perspective to growth strategy, market positioning, strategic partnerships, and long-term enterprise value creation.

As a member of the Catalyst Hospitality Group Advisory Board, Darius contributes the judgment of an experienced operator, the vision of an entrepreneur, and a practical understanding of what it takes to lead people, manage complexity, execute through transition, and build organizations positioned for sustainable growth.

Gene is an executive with over 25 years of progressive leadership experience in the foodservice industry. He has a strong track record of driving sustainable growth, consistently exceeding revenue and profitability goals, and building high-performing teams.

Throughout his career, Gene has led complex organizations through growth and transformation, developing and executing strategic plans that strengthen performance and deliver long-term value. He is known for aligning strategy with execution to achieve measurable business results.

A people-focused leader, Gene is passionate about developing talent and building strong leadership pipelines. His collaborative approach fosters accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement, enabling teams to consistently perform at a high level.

Respected for his integrity and results-driven leadership, Gene is recognized for delivering operational excellence and creating lasting organizational impact in the foodservice industry.