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FBA Board Members
As a franchisee of two different systems, a successful franchise consultant, a partner in a franchise development company and the director of the Franchise Brokers Association, Sabrina has been involved with franchising at ever angle. She focuses on building businesses that embrace collaboration and empowerment of all parties involved. She believes deeply in helping one another as the way to achieve success. She is passionate and committed to creating a win-win-win-win situation for all parties involved in the Franchise Brokers Association.
Carl serves as a lead advisor and provides monthly webinars for franchisors and brokers through the FBA. He is lifelong entrepreneur and business owner, Carl has been at the forefront of the entrepreneurial community globally. Carl is an award-winning coach and business mentor. Carl has teamed up with #1 International best selling authors Ken Blanchard and Stephen R. Covey on their latest book project, Blueprint for Success.
With 90 independently-owned-and-operated offices worldwide, Carl has created the farthest-reaching business mentoring organization in the world. Carl and his team of mentor coaches have overseen the development of thousands of small businesses on six continents; and have conducted over 50,000 coaching sessions with entrepreneurs. There are patterns to success; and failure. His technology and upcoming book, The 7 Stages of Small Business Success, was designed to leverage the strategies of successful companies around the globe.
Carl's dynamic and engaging presentation style has made him one of the most sought after speakers in the world. Audiences will walk away from his presentations with the ability to align their corporate culture, uncover the hidden value of their business, build winning teams, and increase business profits with little or no additional cost.
Mr. Riess is both an Officer at the Corporate Practice Group and a Certified Public Accountant. He brings to the FBA a long history of franchise legal representation as well as Big Eight accounting and Fortune 500 finance and management experience.
In his career Mr. Riess represents many regional, national and international franchisees and franchisors. Eric continues to tour the country giving seminars on franchising and provides extensive franchise and distribution experience. He is a featured speaker for Iron Mountains Sports NFL Franchise Athletes.
As an Officer for Corporate Practice Group he negotiates, plans and drafts uniform franchise offering circulars, franchise agreements, subfranchisor agreements, area development agreements, distribution and supply agreements, manufacturing agreements, commercial real estate leases and sales agreements, real estate development agreements, license agreements, lease/sale agreements, maintenance agreements, option agreements, stock and asset purchase agreements and a wide variety of other commercial agreements.
Founder and CEO of Franchise Consultants, Inc. and has spent the past 25 years assisting other businesses in growth and development via corporate franchising. He received a BA in Economics and History as well as a MA in Marketing from Mercer University. He provides the overall leadership and direction for the team of consultants.
In 1971, John founded Foliage Design Systems. He then franchised the business in 1980, becoming the first-ever to expand via franchising in the interior landscape industry. For years, Foliage Design Systems has consistently ranked as one of the largest interiorscape firms in the United States.
John began Franchise Consultants, Inc. after being approached by several business associates desiring to duplicate his franchise success with their own business concepts, in an affordable and efficient manner.
Peter was the COO of a major lighting manufacturing companies from 1976 to 1987. He operated from two factories in New York City and held 20 showrooms throughout the US. Under his direction, the company enjoyed significant growth and became the foremost producer of contemporary lighting fixtures.
In late 1987, Peter founded a store fixture manufacturing company which became one of the largest producers of store fixtures for national retail chains and cruise ships. Peter sold the company in 1995.
Currently, Peter is owner and CEO of a commercial real estate investment firm, and is President and owner of one of the largest advertising-based recycling companies in the US.
As president of FCI, Peter continues and has been responsible for the business development of many prospective franchisors. His direction helps launch their concepts into national prominence. This is achieved through assisting in maximizing profits, increasing revenue centers, expanding market penetration, increasing and re-directing advertising and promotion. Existing sales forces are expanded and invigorated through targeted training market-driven expansion. FCI Franchisors- clients comprise a diverse group of business segments including retail, wholesale, manufacturing, service, distribution, staffing, finance and technology.
Christopher Wall is fueled with a strong passion for design and is a driving force in the creative design and development of all our projects. He began his career in Graphic Communication and Design in 1999 with a small E-Learning and Instructional Training company. After a series of buy-outs he served as a senior graphics designer at RWD Technologies and Latitude 360° for companies such as NASA, Nokia and Cisco Systems.
Chris then left to pursue his interests in 3D Animation where he received an AS degree in Computer Animation and a series of specialized certifications in Lightwave 3D and Photoshop. Working as a freelance designer he animated and built 3D Characters for a children's tv series and various other projects. He then took a position of creative direction and oversaw the development for all marketing materials and visualizations for a number of condominium sales throughout Florida.
Currently, Chris is now Co-Owner and Creative Director of Developmental Marketing where he continues to focus on Graphic and Web Design, 3D visualization and Animation. He also tours the country training students on sophisticated 3D & Graphic technologies.
Jonathan Flowers has been an information systems specialist for the past 10 years. In 2006 he graduated from the UCF School of Business with a bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems. He also holds certifications in numerous web applications such as Flash and Dreamweaver and provides extensive training on programming and various web technologies. Currently he is Co-Founder of Developmental Marketing LLC.
We have many senior level brokers that act as contributing partners to the development and enhancement of the association. This group consists of 15 brokers that have been in the business for an extended length of time and have achieved the highest levels of success.
The senior broker group also has an eclectic knowledge base of franchising including seminar speaking, former and current franchisees, former franchise sales managers, franchise development, franchise recruiters, founders of broker networks, franchisors, IFA members, leads systems generators, networking guru’s and advanced sales trainers.
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