Buzz Franchise Brands’ Growing Franchise Development Team
The past year, and the past few months specifically, have shown significant growth across all of our brands. With the goals we put in place for 2021 (which you can read about here), we have been working non-stop to achieve these goals by the end of the year.
We have been hosting Meet the Team days almost every week, where potential franchise candidates meet with our corporate team for a mutual assessment of the partnership to see if it will be a good fit. A huge factor in these Meet the Team days, and our franchise growth in general, is our franchise development team. We are so excited to have added three new members to that team in 2021, bringing us to a total of five franchise representatives!
Meet our Franchise Development Team
Our veteran franchise development representative, Timothy Holadia, is Vice President of Franchise Development. Timothy has been in franchise development for more than 20 years and loves having the opportunity to help people realize their dreams of being in business for themselves. The former VP of Development at Geeks on Call and most recently, CEO & Founder of Franmogul, has worked with more than 80 brands to grow their franchise networks.
Dave Warn has served as our Director of Franchise Development since July of 2019. Dave also has a background heavy in franchising, having served as Vice President of Franchise Development at his last job with Deka Lash, LLC, and was also in franchise development at several other companies prior to that.
Austin James has been with Buzz Franchise Brands since 2018, but transitioned to franchise development earlier this year with the growing need of a team to support franchisee candidates. Prior to becoming Director of Franchise Development, Austin played an integral role in supporting the onboarding, launch, and development of our franchisees across the brands. Austin has started off his new role strong, doing an excellent job diving into the world of franchise development and connecting with people to share our brands.
In late March, Natalie Weaver joined the Buzz Franchise Brands family to help us achieve our franchise development goals. Natalie is a Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) grad with over seven years experience in franchise development, more than half of which was at multi-brand franchisor Outdoor Living Brands in Richmond, VA. She has worked on a variety of emerging concepts and also has experience with most of the major consultant networks.
We also had Jen Olson join us in April to round out the franchise development team. She is a Michigan State University (MSU) grad with almost 20 years in franchise development, working with brands of all sizes, such as Mr. Handyman, Regis Brands (Supercuts, Pro Cuts, Roosters) and most recently NOW Massage. Jen has deep experience and a strong reputation within the consultant community, which she’s looking forward to utilizing.
Each of our franchise development team members brings different strengths to the team, but they all have a strong passion for enabling people to realize their dreams through business ownership and a special ability to connect with people and share our brand voices when talking with franchisee candidates. With some of them having their own experiences in franchise ownership, they are able to connect well and understand questions and hesitations of candidates, and more fully invest in their journey through the franchise process.
This has already started out as our strongest year yet for each of our brands, proving that we have a solid squad that’s working hard to find the right franchisees to grow our brands across the country, thus enabling us to provide more professional services to homes and people. We look forward to seeing our franchise development team continue to crush it!