Marketing and Executives
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Dan Tarantin, President and CEO Dan, named president and CEO by Harris Research Inc.’s Board of Directors in November 2011, has extensive experience helping services companies grow and succeed, both as an investor and an operator. Previously, he served as President and CEO of Jackson Hewitt Tax Service and has been involved with a number of other home services and franchise businesses, including Century 21 and Coldwell Banker. |
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Bill Zinke, Vice President of Marketing Bill has over 20 years of marketing experience, including time spent building the brands and expanding the networks of several other franchised concepts. He teaches franchisees how to acquire new customers and generate repeat business, and also helps build national brand awareness and consumer demand through public relations and management of Chem-Dry’s website, social networks and online marketing efforts. |
Franchise Development
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D’wayne Tanner, Vice President of Franchise Development D’wayne joined Chem-Dry in 2013 and brings a wealth of franchising knowledge to the Chem-Dry development team. He has previously worked with Wendy’s, Cinnabon, Ruby Tuesday and Focus Brands, where he ran sales for Carvel, Cinnabon, Schlotzsky’s and Moe’s Southwest Grill. His main objective is making sure Chem-Dry recruits the best people to represent the brand.
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| Kim Falcone, Franchise Development Director Kim Falcone has been with Chem-Dry since 2012. As a franchise development director, she is responsible for qualifying, educating, and engaging potential Chem-Dry franchisees. She worked previously as a franchise development director for Tasti D-Lite and Planet Smoothie, and also spent a decade in real estate development with Sterling Communities, Inc. | |
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Chelsey Sanders, Franchise Development Director Chelsey has been with Chem-Dry since 2004. As franchise development director, she is responsible for qualifying, educating, and engaging potential Chem-Dry franchisees; working with new Chem-Dry leads; and identifying existing franchisees in a position to expand their footprint. Chelsey also manages our referral program and all communications concerning brand expansion and growth. Over the last four years, she has recruited more 275 franchisees to Chem-Dry and its sister company. |
Training and Support
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Ed Quinlan, Vice President of Franchise Services Ed oversees business support services for Chem-Dry’s franchisees, including training and business coaching programs designed to improve performance, call centers that help schedule jobs for franchisees and the implementation of software improvements designed to make business easier and more profitable. |
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Jotham Hatch, Director of Training Jotham joined the team as an Instructional Designer in 2003 and has focused on training solutions ever since. Jotham is critical to our franchisees’ success, using a wide variety of blended learning approaches ranging from on-line, face-to-face, hands-on, and text-based methods. |
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Charlie Erickson, Quick Start Coach Charlie has been with Chem-Dry for more than eight years. He helps new franchisees adopt Chem-Dry’s best practices, achieve goals and hit benchmarks. Charlie also acts as a resource for general questions and guides franchise owners to the many resources the Chem-Dry Corporate Office offers the franchise network. |
