{"id":51918,"date":"2025-12-22T08:58:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/?p=51918"},"modified":"2025-12-22T08:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:58:15","slug":"subway-cio-dave-blankenship-announces-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/2025\/12\/22\/subway-cio-dave-blankenship-announces-departure\/","title":{"rendered":"Subway CIO Dave Blankenship announces departure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dave Blankenship has announced his departure as CIO at Subway after five-and-a-half years with the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a LinkedIn post, US-based Blankenship, said: \u201cAfter more than five fantastic years, I have decided to transition out of Subway at the end of the year. It has been an incredible journey, and I am grateful to have worked alongside such talented teammates and dedicated franchisees who inspired me every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTogether, we made real progress by elevating the guest experience, strengthening operations and moving the business forward in meaningful ways. I will always value the relationships, memories and lessons that shaped my time here, and I am excited to carry them into my next chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThank you to everyone who supported me along the way, especially the entire Subway technology team and our extraordinary leadership team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was a privilege to lead and partner with such a committed and thoughtful group of people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blankenship has acquired 30 years of hands-on experience in planning, developing and operating large scale business solutions in fast paced environments. He has a strong record of success in driving Digital Transformations at global hospitality companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He joined Subway from Marriott International after being appointed Chief Technology Officer at Subway in August 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blankenship became the company\u2019s CIO in December 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Blankenship has announced his departure as CIO at Subway after five-and-a-half years with the company. In a LinkedIn post, US-based Blankenship, said: \u201cAfter more than five fantastic years, I have decided to transition out of Subway at the end of the year. It has been an incredible journey, and I am grateful to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":51919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4674,1034,43],"tags":[355,10361,221,1461,10362],"class_list":["post-51918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-north-america","category-top-stories","tag-cio","tag-dave-blankenship","tag-digital-transformation","tag-hospitality","tag-subway"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51921,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51918\/revisions\/51921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}