Appetronix Names Former Compass Exec CFO

Appetronix has a new CFO in Heather Wilkie, whose career includes business transformation leadership roles at Compass Group Canada.

Appetronix offers a fully autonomous robotic restaurants-in-a-box that cooks made-to-order meals without on-site employees. Its first commercial deployment was a Donatos Pizza unit in 2025 at Columbus International Airport with HMSHost. It now operates across multiple cuisine platforms and holds a variety of patents on food-grade robotic systems.

Wilkie will help develop the financial infrastructure required to roll out more units across North America and beyond.

Wilkie has worked with Appetronix in the past through her roles at Compass. Prior to Compass, she was the finance lead of Deloitte’s Canadian Consulting practice and a member of its Canadian Consulting Executive Committee.

In the September/October 2025 issue of FER, Donatos Pizza shared its take on the automated unit in Columbus, Ohio.