Hala Moddelmog

Hala Moddelmog, President and Chief Executive Officer, joined Susan G. Komen for the Cure in September 2006. As CEO, Ms. Moddelmog is responsible for all aspects of the organization’s management, including budgets, forecasts, managing business units including the Affiliate network, policies, procedures and compliance, and the development and successful implementation of the organization’s objectives and strategies to end breast cancer forever. She works closely with Komen volunteers, staff and the Board of Directors.

As a 5-year breast cancer survivor and former Fortune 500 executive with a passion for championing women’s issues and community engagement, Ms. Moddelmog’s commitment to Komen’s mission is fueled in her belief in the power of hope, the strength of survivors and the belief that one day the cures will be found. She embraces the core values of Komen, which seek to build a culture of hope through inclusion, honesty, passion and empowerment.

Prior to joining Komen for the Cure, she served as Founder and CEO of Catalytic Ventures, a private equity firm that consulted and invested in the food service industry. She was the first woman in corporate America to lead an international quick service restaurant brand in 1995 when she was named president of Church’s Chicken, a division of Atlanta-based AFC Enterprises. She subsequently led Church’s to record sales and profit performance. She also held executive management and marketing positions at Church’s Chicken, Arby’s Franchise Association, and BellSouth.

Ms. Moddelmog has served on the boards of Leadership Atlanta, the Atlanta Police Foundation, the B.B. King Museum Foundation and Women Looking Ahead magazine. She is a recipient of the Women’s Foodservice Forum Emerging Leader Award, the International Franchise Association Bonny LeVine Award, the Restaurant Hospitality Rising Star Award and the Roundtable for Women in Foodservice Pacesetter Award. In 2003 she received the Women of Achievement Award from the YMCA of Greater Atlanta.

Ms. Moddelmog earned a Bachelor’s degree in English from Georgia Southern University and a Master’s degree in journalism and mass communications from the University of Georgia.