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Joe Guith with McAlister's Deli and Kris Vaughn with GeorgiaForward

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With over 20 years of experience in food service, consumer products and retail, Joe Guith was promoted to the role of President of McAlister’s Deli® in April 2018. Previously, Guith served as Chief Operating Officer and President of Cinnabon, Inc. for four years, driving significant results through strong performance management, application of process-driven improvements and building collaborative, high performing teams. Prior to joining FOCUS Brands, Guith worked in general management and strategy with Coca-Cola and Yum! Brands in domestic and international markets. This background has fostered a passion for growing iconic brands that deliver superior experiences and value for guests and franchisees. Guith is originally from Michigan and has a BBA and MBA from the University of Michigan. He currently lives in Atlanta with his wife and two children.

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Since August of 2015 Kris Vaughn has served as the Executive Director of GeorgiaForward, a statewide nonprofit working to strengthen communities, unite our State and create a talent pipeline within Georgia. Under her leadership GeorgiaForward has expanded its Young Gamechangers program, and resumed its annual Forums that convene statewide thought leaders to discuss the future of Georgia. Prior to joining GeorgiaForward, Kris served Senior Executive Assistant of Strategic Planning at the Macon Water Authority, an award-winning water and sewer utility in Macon, Georgia. For five and half years before that she was the Director of Place for NewTown Macon as a leading member of the development team transforming downtown Macon. Kris is an active volunteer with the Junior League of Macon and the Macon Rotary Club. Kris is a 2008 graduate of the University of Georgia’s Grady School of Journalism. She is a 2010 graduate of Leadership Macon as well as the Georgia Academy of Regional Economic and Leadership Development, a 2015 graduate of the Middle Georgia Regional Leadership Champions, and a graduate of the 2017 Class of Leadership Georgia. Kris is married to Forsyth attorney Ben Vaughn and they live in Monroe County with their daughter Hattie and two dogs, Chunk and Gunner. They are active members of Mulberry Street United Methodist Church in Macon.

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Georgia Business Radio 06-19-15 Paul Macaluso with FOCUS Brands, Jim Squire with Southeast Franchise Forum - Buckhead Business Radio

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Paul M Macaluso/FOCUS Brands Restaurant Group

SVP Marketing, McAlister’s Deli, Moe’s Southwest Grill, Schlotzsky’s Bakery-Café

Marketing chair for Southeast Franchise Forum

Macaluso joined Atlanta-based FOCUS Brands in 2011 as chief marketing officer for Moes Southwest Grill, where he led the team to achieve 13 consecutive quarters of same store sales increases. In addition, he spearheaded the opening of 185 restaurants and entered seven new states and four new countries marking several significant achievements for the brand. In November 2014, he was named senior vice president of marketing for the Restaurant Group; he oversees the brand marketing and strategy processes for all brand-level marketing resources including culinary, public relations and creative services for McAlisters Deli, Moes Southwest Grill and Schlotzkys Bakery Café. Prior to his tenure at FOCUS Brands, he held executive positions at Sonic Drive-Ins, Taco Bell and Burger King. He has achieved numerous internal awards at FOCUS Brands and serves on the advisory board for the Franchise Consumer Marketing Conference.

He has just been appointed as Marketing Chair for the Southeast Franchise Forum, a regional organization established to foster professional relationships throughout the franchise community and to enhance the reputation of franchising through the exchange of information, ideas and solutions.

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Jim Squire/Southeast Franchise Forum

Chairman & CEO

Jim Squire, CFE, has been a long-standing and active participant in the International Franchise Association. He is currently executive vice president and chief development officer of Firestorm and a member of the IFA Educational Foundation Board of Trustees, IFAs Franchisor Forum, Franchise Congress and the Franchise Relations and Membership committees. Squire served as a member of the IFA board of directors from 1990 to 2001.

Prior to joining Firestorm, Squire was a senior executive with such well-known franchise brands as HoneyBaked Ham, Great American Cookies, Arbys, Days Inn and Howard Johnson.

He is chairman of the Southeast Franchise Forum, chairman emeritus of the Georgia Restaurant Association, a member of Georgia State Universitys School of Hospitality Industry Advisory Board and president of his Rotary Club. He was named Georgia Foodservice Industry Leader of the Year in 1990, and honored in 2003 with the prestigious Georgia Hospitality and Travel Association Chairmans Award. In 2014, he was presented the IFA Educational Foundation’s highest honor, the William Rosenberg Leadership Award.

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