Briidge Syndicates

We connect under-capitalized operators and investors - helping to create franchise owners.

Have spent the last 3 years working with prospective entrepreneurs and franchise owners and building relationships with angel investors, private equity firms, and family offices. 

We have explored various partnerships, entity structures, and syndication deal terms that would be valuable for both franchisees an investors.

Have raised over $2M from investors to finance the franchise operations for individual franchise operators.

Founder & Director of Partnerships

Spilled Milk Ice Cream & Cereal Bar

Advisor to Spilled Milk Ice Cream & Cereal Bar. At Spilled Milk Ice Cream, we have combined two of the most comforting foods known to man — ice cream and cereal — and made them into one perfect dessert.

Visit us at: https://www.spilledmilkicecream.com/

Advisor

Rolling Suds

Coached and facilitated the onboarding of new franchisees. Developed systems and processes to streamline the onboarding process, including vendor account setup, truck production, and training.

Negotiated the terms and contract of a new Learning Management System that would be utilized by all new franchisees, their employees, and the internal operations team.

VP Onboarding

Crumbl Cookies

“Bringing families and friends together over a box of the best cookies in the world.”

Negotiated a partnership with an existing, single-unit franchise owner and secured an area develop agreement with Crumbl to open 6+ additional locations in the Atlanta, GA area.

Franchise Owner

Cupbop Korean BBQ

Developed from scratch, and implemented processes and relationships to build and open CupBop Korean BBQ restaurants in ID, NV, AZ. 

Managed the RE and tenant-improvement projects of several new locations in ID, AZ, and NV.

Vice President - Buildout

Helping to fulfill the mission of Crumbl by bringing families and friends together over a box of the BEST cookies in the world. A couple of key highlights are:

- Helped implement and incorporate an Area Development Agreement into Crumbl’s Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) allowing stores to purchase multi-unit franchise opportunities. This one change increased the franchise sales for Crumbl by over 700% (15 franchises sold in Q2 of 2020 - over 125 franchises sold in Q3, 125+ in Q4…) 
- Created content including a Location Criteria Packet to assist brokers and franchisees find and select the best locations for their stores
- Created the sales roadmap outlining the entire franchise sales process

Vice President - Franchise Sales

Managed the entire experience of bringing a new franchisee into the Crumbl system while also continuing to oversee the build out and construction of new stores. Created documentation and systems to elevate the experience. A couple of key highlights include:

- Implemented a key relationship with an equipment contractor to automate and streamline the entire equipment purchasing, staging, and delivery process
- Created the roadmap for onboarding a new franchisee and what is involved in the process
- Oversaw the project management of 60-80 new location builds consistently

Vice President - Onboarding & Construction

Supported all new Crumbl franchises from the time they paid their franchise fee until their store was open. A couple of key highlights include:

- Created all processes for the build and construction of new Crumbl franchises (Build Out Guide, Inspection checklists, Equipment Purchasing Guide)
- Established relationships with key vendors to support new franchisees in purchasing their store equipment
- Managed 75+ new store build projects (Crumbl went from 23 stores open to over 100). Consistently managing 50-80 projects in various build out/store opening stages

Director of Construction

D&D Management Group, LLC

Multi-unit Restaurant Management Group that owns and runs 30+ Jimmy John's franchises. 

As Director of HR and Compliance for a young, fast-growth company, I had a wide range of responsibilities;

Human Resources
- Manage and oversee HR function; training, HRIS, recruiting, customer and employee complaints, sensitivity training and investigations, benefits admin and ACA compliance, HR law and safety

Insurance
- Manage insurance claims and annual policy renewal; general liability, workers compensation, commercial auto, hired non-owned auto, EPL, and umbrella coverage

Information Technology
- Manage IT function; hardware acquisitions and vendor relationships, PCI compliance, outage solutions, new-store setup

Construction/Maintenance
- Manage maintenance and construction team; oversee team of 3 individuals, new store construction and build-out, equipment and facility maintenance, training and developing,
- Grew from 23 restaurants to 31 in my 3 years with D&D including the acquisition of 3 stores in South Carolina

Company Administration/Compliance
- Serious customer complaints or insurance claims, meeting/event logistics, corporate governance, office organization/cleanliness

Director of HR and Compliance

Multi-unit Restaurant Management Group that owns and runs 30+ Jimmy John's franchises. 

HR Manager
- Manage serious customer or employee complaints, oversee on-boarding and HRIS systems, benefit administration, HR law and safety, training

HR Manager

Utah Valley University

As an HR intern I worked closely with several individuals within UVU's Human Resources department. I conducted research and completed several special projects for the AVP of HR. I also worked closely with the Employment Resources Director throughout a University wide Organizational Assessment distributing surveys, analyzing results, and creating additional tools for assessment. 

Some projects I was responsible for were:
- Developing a Team Efficiency Assessment and coordinating its completion among UVU staff.
- Organizing Transaction Reports into consumable metrics and presenting to HR leadership.
- Distributing departmental surveys to go along with a University wide organizational assessment.
- Research on multiple policy updates regarding hiring processes and staff rights & responsibilities.

HR Intern

Domo, Inc.

Based on exceptional performance I was moved into an Inbound Account Development role which included similar efforts with the addition of responding to all inbound web traffic. I still maintained responsibility for pre-sales and qualifying prospective customers prior to meeting with Sales Executives. This included consistent communication and coordination with business decision makers and Sales Executives to ensure a smooth sales process and win's for Domo. 

In this role I contributed to over $530,000 of contract value and had multiple months of reaching 150% to quota.

Account Development - Responder

As an Account Development Manager I helped drive the growth of Domo’s products, services, and solutions. I was responsible for qualifying prospective customers from outbound efforts prior to meeting with Sales Executives. This included following up on email campaign responses, cold calling business decision makers, trade show follow-up, webinar and event follow-up, and more.

Account Development Manager

SecurityMetrics

As a compliance consultant I helped small business owners keep and maintain security protocols for the Payment Card Industry (PCI). I was key in helping businesses renew their subscriptions as well as selling additional beneficial products provided by SecurityMetrics. I was one of 5 individuals to launch and implement a compliance product for HIPAA qualified businesses which led to the development of multiple HIPAA compliance sales teams.

Compliance Consultant

Franchise Private Equity. Connecting investors with great opportunities - Franchising | Real Estate | Venture Capital

I'm an excellent laugher, music listener, food/treat taster, and fun haver.

Over the last 8 years I have worked with 2 successful multi-unit franchisees (30+ units), multiple emerging franchisors (including the '21 nations fastest-growing franchisor), and consulted hundreds of franchisees or prospective franchise owners.

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