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Michael Wagner with Pool Scouts

January 25, 2023 by rgandley

Michael Wagner was born in California but grew up a military brat who lived in many spots and traveled around the world. Michael graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with degrees in Economics and Spanish.

Prior to Pool Scouts he worked as the Corporate Sales Officer for Chartway Federal Credit Union. Before Chartway, Michael was the Global Client Services Leader for DuPont Sustainable Solutions.

He held multiple senior leadership roles for Coastal Training Technologies Corporation (acquired by DuPont) over a 19-year career. As the President of Pool Scouts, Michael oversees the business and works to drive growth and ensure franchisee support.

When not working hard to set new benchmarks for the pool cleaning and maintenance business, he enjoys traveling around the east coast with his wife and two children for soccer games and training sessions. He also enjoys soccer, surfing and time at his own pool with the family.

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Chris Seman with Strategic Franchising Systems

January 18, 2023 by rgandley

Before his success leading Strategic Franchising, Chris Seman previously served in various senior executive positions, including President of Caring Transitions, and Vice President with Mr. Handyman International.

Chris is a firm believer in franchising and the franchise model, having gained this belief through his experience as a franchise executive and by owning his own franchise.

Chris owned and operated a successful Mr. Handyman franchise and knows firsthand the critical importance of having a world-class training, marketing, and operational support programs in place for franchise owners at all levels of the system.

After five years of amazing growth and success with Caring Transitions, Chris was promoted to COO/President of Strategic Franchising Systems to help spread his ideas and proven systems across all five Strategic Franchising brands.

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Zachary Meade with SpeedPro

January 18, 2023 by rgandley

Zachary Meade, Vice President – Training and Field Support at SpeedPro, holds more than 25 years of combined experience in executive recruitment, sales, management consulting, and business coaching. Working in the U.S. and Europe for both startup organizations and Fortune 100 companies, he has partnered with clients in industries such as information technology, investment banking, oil and gas, real estate, consumer lending, and manufacturing.

After 11 years abroad and earning dual U.S.–U.K. citizenship, Zack returned to the U.S. in 2016. He is passionate about coaching small business owners toward increased profitability while reducing stress and enabling them to carve out more time for themselves and their families.

Zack loves baseball (both playing and watching). He is originally from Canton, Ohio (Pro Football Hall of Fame location), and therefore continues to punish himself by remaining a loyal Cleveland Browns fan. Zack also volunteers his time as a Board Member of a local blindness charity (B.I.T. – Blind Institute of Technology), helping the blind and visually impaired find employment within the technology space.

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Jeff Salter with Caring Senior Service

January 13, 2023 by rgandley

Jeff Salter is the founder and CEO of Caring Senior Service. Caring provides in-home, non-medical homecare services to help seniors maintain their independence and quality of life.

While working at a home health care company, Jeff saw that seniors and families were not able to handle the challenges of aging in place.

At 20 years old in 1991, Jeff started his company to be the solution for local and long-distance caregiving.

Within 5 years, he had opened an additional 4 locations and in 2003 started franchising. In 2021, Jeff celebrated the 30-year anniversary of Caring Senior Service by launching a nonprofit foundation called “Close the Gap in Senior Care” to bring awareness to overlooked aspects of senior care.

In April 2021, to kick-start this foundation’s fundraising and start a national conversation around senior care, Jeff rode his electric bicycle over 9,400 miles to visit each franchise location — a 4-month cross-country journey that raised over $100,000 for the Close the Gap cause.

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Jerry Flanigan with JDog Junk Removal and Hauling

January 13, 2023 by rgandley

Jerry “JDOG” Flanagan is an Army Veteran and CEO/Founder JDog Brands.

JDog Brands is a 100 million dollar franchise system including JDOG JUNK REMOVAL AND HAULING AND JDOG CARPET CLEANING & FLOOR CARE servicing customers all around the US.

With nearly 300 franchises nationwide, we are the largest Veteran Franchise in the world. We offer our unique business model to Veterans and Veteran Family members exclusively.

Our mission continues to create business opportunities and employment for every man and woman whoever served our great country. Our services include junk removal, recycling, repurposing, donating, as well as carpet cleaning and floor care.

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Jon Jarvis with Footprints Floors

January 2, 2023 by rgandley

Serving as the Director of Onboarding and Training within Footprints Floors, Jon Jarvis takes on much of the onboarding processes for new Franchisees coming in for training. Entering into a new business venture can be intimidating, and that is why Jon places a premium on supporting and adding value to our owners, by arming them with many of the tools and information needed to make the transition as smooth as possible.

From setting up emails for new owners, getting marketing sources built out, and many other important tasks, to helping prep and facilitate our hands-on training week with flooring expert Jon Namba, Jon has his hat hanging on many different hooks within the company.

Having a degree in Nonprofit Management, and a strong bend towards helping people, Jon finds great joy in seeing other people succeed, and better the lives of their families and communities. In addition to his role in helping Franchise Owners succeed, Jon is also one of the senior advisors of the Footprints First Fruits Fund, which exists as the philanthropic and charitable arm of Footprints Floors Corporate. In this role, Jon oversees the fund, manages the relationships with existing nonprofit organizations, and seeks out new opportunities to support and engage with other like minded organizations.

Personally, Jon grew up in Vienna Austria, but has lived in Colorado for the last twenty three years. He has a background in both Christian non-profit work and commercial construction. He currently lives in Castle Rock, Colorado with his beautiful wife Emily, and their three kids, with another on the way. He enjoys hiking, mountain road trips, building furniture (woodworking), playing music and spending time with his family in any way he can.

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John Palumbo with A & W Restaurants

January 2, 2023 by rgandley

John Palumbo is the Sr. Director Franchise Development at A&W. Throughout his 20-year career he has had the great opportunity to work with some remarkable brands and companies in the QSR, Finance and Education categories. Still to this day the most amazing part of what he does remains helping people.

The joy of watching new franchise owners gain entry to entrepreneurship is still as exciting to him as it was 20 years ago. John has had the good fortune to learn under some wonderful leaders and mentors. He’s led large teams and small teams and has developed new restaurants both domestically and internationally in both the traditional and non-traditional space.

John’s area of responsibilities and expertise include New Development, Real Estate and Franchise Financing. He’s truly blessed to do what he does every day for a remarkable, legacy brand like A&W Restaurants.

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Charles Bonfiglio with Tint World® Automotive Styling Centers™

January 2, 2023 by rgandley

Charles Bonfiglio is an American entrepreneur, franchisor, and president and CEO of Tint World®. After successfully owning and growing a number of Meineke Car Care Centers and starting an automotive e-commerce business, he developed Tint World® to begin franchising in 2006.

He built the Tint World® franchise system on proven principles that have been successfully implemented by people from all walks of life. This is possible because Tint World® has invested in one of the most comprehensive pre-opening training and assistance programs in the industry.

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Bob Moore with United Water Restoration

December 20, 2022 by rgandley

Bob Moore has almost 30 years of experience delivering results in the franchise industry. He spent 13 years with Domino’s Pizza – the last 7 as a multi-unit franchisee, owning multiple Domino’s stores.

After selling his stores, Bob went onto work for a couple of “Top 200” Franchise Brands: ServiceMaster and Dunkin’ Brands. At ServiceMaster, Bob was the West Coast Regional Director where he was responsible for 5 states of franchisees.

Bob and his team supported 134 franchisees in California, Arizona, Nevada, Alaska & Hawaii, with the bulk of the revenue coming from the disaster restoration franchisees. At Dunkin’, Bob oversaw about a third of the US for all things training and people related.

While at Dunkin’, Bob also led the team that rebuilt the New Franchisee Training Program, the training you went thru when you first became a Dunkin’ franchise. Bob has been with UWRG for a little over 3 years.

When he started with UWRG, they had 5 franchisees and were struggling to grow the brand. Today, UWRG has 27 franchisees, but more importantly has an improved franchise business model and tools to help franchisees be more successful.

Bob lives in Fleming Island, FL with his wife and son. They have 3 other children in Maryland and Massachusetts. When he isn’t working, Bob enjoys cycling, running and golf.

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