Carol DiRaimo was Chief Investor Relations & Corporate Communications Officer at Jack in the Box Inc. from July 2008 until August 2019 and returned as Interim Vice President of Investor Relations from November 2020 until March 2021.
Previously, she was Vice President of Investor Relations for Applebee’s International, Inc., where she was employed for 14 years and served in a variety of capacities, including financial planning & reporting, treasury and corporate analysis, before heading the investor relations function. Carol has over 30 years of experience in the restaurant industry and six years of public accounting experience at Deloitte.
Carol has served as a Board Advisor to Hawaiian Bros since July 2021, and was officially appointed to the Board of Directors in October 2023, where she serves as chair of the Audit Committee. She was previously a member of the Board of Directors of Qdoba Restaurant Corporation, serving as Chair of its Audit Committee from October 2020 until the company was acquired in October 2022.
She currently serves on the University of Missouri Trulaske College of Business Dean’s Advisory Board and on the Advisory Board of Gleam Network, a non-profit dedicated to providing mentorship and leadership development in the foodservice industry. She also served on the Board of Trustees and Audit Committee of Rockhurst University from 2010 until 2019. From 2006 to 2011, Carol served on the Board of Directors of the National Investor Relations Institute.
Carol has received numerous awards, including being recognized by IR Magazine with a lifetime achievement award in 2020, and named one of the top 30 global investor relations professionals over the past 30 years in 2018. IR Magazine honored Carol six times as Best Investor Relations Officer in the U.S. for a small- to mid-cap company. In 2017, Jack in the Box received awards for Best Overall Investor Relations Program (midcap) and Best in Sector: Consumer Discretionary by IR Magazine. In 2017 and 2018, Jack in the Box Inc. was recognized as one of the magazine’s Global Top 50 IR programs. Institutional Investor named Carol to its All-America Executive Team 12 times, ranking her as the Best Investor Relations Officer by the sell-side for six consecutive years (2013 – 2018) as well as the Best Investor Relations Officer by the buy-side in 2016 and 2017. Institutional Investor also recognized Jack in the Box Inc. as one of America’s Most Honored Companies for five consecutive years (2015 – 2019).
Carol graduated summa cum laude from the University of Missouri with a BS in accountancy, and received a Bronze Medal on the CPA exam in 1983. She also earned an Executive Fellows MBA from Rockhurst University in Kansas City in 2004.
