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Class III directors whose terms expire at
the 2014 annual meeting of shareholders Age
Director
Since
Montgomery F. (Monty) Moran .... Mr.Moran is our Co-Chief Executive Officer. He was
appointed to this position on January 1, 2009, after
serving as President and Chief Operating Officer since
March 2005. Mr. Moran previously served as chief
executive officer of the Denver law firm Messner &
Reeves, LLC, where he was employed since 1996, and as
general counsel of Chipotle. His experience as our
general counsel from the time we had only a few
restaurants through our growth to several hundred
restaurants at the time he joined us, has given him an in-
depth knowledge and understanding of every aspect of
our business. His legal experience ran from trial and
employment matters to real estate and other transactional
matters, as well as general corporate counseling. As a
result he has an outstanding skill set in such areas as risk
management and crisis handling, and also is thoroughly
familiar with management personnel throughout our
organization. In addition, Mr. Moran was the visionary
and creator of our Restaurateur program and other aspects
of instilling a culture of high performers throughout
Chipotle, and his leadership in this area has been critical
to our success. Mr. Moran holds a Bachelor of Arts
degree in communications from the University of
Colorado and a J.D., cum laude, from Pepperdine
University School of Law.
46 2006
Class I directors whose terms expire at the
2015 annual meeting of shareholders Age
Director
Since
Steve Ells ..................... Mr.Ells founded Chipotle in 1993. He is Co-Chief
Executive Officer and was appointed Chairman of the
Board in 2005. Prior to launching Chipotle, Mr. Ells
worked for two years at Stars restaurant in San Francisco.
Mr. Ells’s vision—that food served fast doesn’t have to
be low quality and that delicious food doesn’t have to be
expensive—is the foundation on which Chipotle is based.
This visionary thinking has led to Chipotle accomplishing
great things, such as growing from a single restaurant to
over 1,400 in just 20 years, and serving more naturally-
raised meat than any other restaurant company. This
thinking has also resulted in Mr. Ells remaining a
principal driving force behind making our company
innovative and striving for constant improvement, and he
continues to provide important leadership to our
executive officers, management team, and Board of
Directors. He is also one of the largest individual
shareholders of our company. Mr. Ells graduated from the
University of Colorado with a Bachelor of Arts degree in
art history, and is also a 1990 Culinary Institute of
America graduate.
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