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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.

Connect with Jerry on LinkedIn.

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.

Connect with Jon on LinkedIn.

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.

Connect with John on LinkedIn.

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.

Connect with Charles on LinkedIn.

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.

Connect with Bob on LinkedIn.

Men In Kilts Brand President Rachel Southard

December 20, 2022 by rgandley

Rachel Southard, Brand President: Rachel joined Threshold Brands as the President of Men in Kilts in June of 2021.

Prior to joining Threshold, Rachel was a consultant at an Ogilvy company where she led strategy behind digital experience initiatives for brands such as Southwest Airlines, Chick-Fil-A, Christian Brothers Automotive and Caesars.

For the ten years prior to her time at Ogilvy, Rachel worked at Self Esteem Brands (SEB) leading operations for Anytime Fitness franchise, a $1.5B global operation with over 4,000 locations worldwide.

Connect with Rachel on LinkedIn.

DeNita Carani With Pet Wants

December 15, 2022 by rgandley

DeNita Carani was recently named as Pet Wants Brand President. Carani, a franchising industry veteran and rescue dog mom, can discuss how she was drawn to the whole mission of the brand: promote the health and wellness of pets and how she plans to help grow Pet Wants, the only national provider of pet food freshly delivered to customers, dominate the fast-growing pet food segment.

Carani has been on both sides of the franchising equation, she served as the senior director of operations for the in-home childcare franchise Jovie (formerly known as College Nannies + Sitters). Before that, she owned the brand’s first franchise in the Atlanta market for 10 years. Carani also built a startup business in the medical alert space from the ground up.

She can discuss her excitement to join Pet Wants which has quickly become a leader in the pet food industry, an industry approaching $50 billion a year in the U.S. With 47 territories sold in the past year alone, the brand is on a mission to open 200 locations by the end of 2024 and Carani can discuss how she plans to help fuel that growth across the country.

Connect with DeNite on LinkedIn.

Mike Lenard with Takorean

December 5, 2022 by rgandley

Mike Lenard is the founder and CEO of TaKorean, which launched in 2010. From a young age Mike was fascinated by street food vendors & has always loved cooking, which became his inspiration to launch TaKorean, a fast-casual Korean-inspired concept with Latin-American influence.

Mike had a vision to bring a fresh twist on Korean flavors to the Washington DC food scene. TaKorean’s “build your own” bowl and taco concept allows guests to create memorable meals, catered to their specific preferences by combining the restaurant’s colorful, fresh, and delicious ingredients.

Originally founded as a mobile vending concept, Mike and his team have grown the brand into a local chain of brick-and-mortar locations and, as of 2022, are on a mission to build out the TaKorean franchise.

Connect with Mike on LinkedIn.

Paul Linenberg with Gotcha Covered

December 5, 2022 by rgandley

Paul Linenberg has been the President of Gotcha Covered since 2010 following a varied career in sales, marketing, and entrepreneurship. Paul excels at being lucky, especially in being able to work with an amazing group of people at Gotcha Covered, and helping provide custom window treatments for people across the US and Canada.

Paul grew up in the Detroit area and his love of the Red Wings has never waivered. He graduated from Miami (of Ohio) and has had to explain that several hundred times over the years. Paul has been in Colorado since 2000.

Paul plays hockey, practices Krav Maga, and occasionally gets behind his drum set to fill the house with slightly off-tempo but incredibly enthusiastic drum covers. Also a fan of craft beer and not cooking, Paul and his wife, Maggie, base their relationship on those three special little words – “diet starts Monday.”

Connect with Paul on LinkedIn.