| Name | Title | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|
Justin Wales |
Chief Legal Officer | Profile |
Nick Lundgren |
EVP, Head of Legal | Profile |
Flynn Group is the largest franchise operator in the United States, focusing on multi-brand restaurant and retail operations. Founded in 1999 by Greg Flynn, the company has expanded significantly from its beginnings as a single-market Applebee’s operator. It now manages a diverse portfolio that includes well-known brands such as Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Panera Bread, and Arby’s, with over 2,500 locations across the country. The company specializes in franchise management, acquiring and optimizing underperforming locations to enhance operational efficiency and drive sales growth. Flynn Groups acquisition strategy has led to substantial growth, including the recent addition of 45 Pizza Hut locations in 2025, bringing its total to over 1,000. With a people-first approach, Flynn Group emphasizes employee training and retention, ensuring consistent customer experiences across its various dining segments.
Hustle Nation Podcast covers everything from leadership to finances, culture, sales, coaching, and personal branding, and most importantly we discuss topics that deliver results. We bring the hustle from the people who have it to the people who need it. We do this by interviewing highly successful leaders, entrepreneurs, and coaches. Our guests share their stories of adversity and success along with their tactics and strategies for crushing success. Its our personal goal to turn our listeners into Hustle Nation advocates and advocates into success stories. So stop reading and start listening.
AXIS Automation is an industry leading manufacturing company backed by over 35 years of experience and global reach. We provide a wide range of innovative automated decorating and finishing solutions for the baking and snack food industry. Our drive is our customers. Weve worked with over 400 clients, including Fortune 100 and 500 companies around the world, to perfect their product and streamline their process for greater output and less waste. We are committed to providing reliable, accurate, and efficient systems that deliver better quality product at higher production rates and lower cost. PRECISION With our machinery, consistency and quality always come first. When your product comes out just as expected, every time, you waste fewer ingredients and save more money. Our engineers work with the unique requirements of your product to achieve accurate and precise decorating and finishing solutions. FLEXIBILITY When we design our equipment, we keep in mind that giving you more possibilities allows you more control over your product. Thats why we incorporate flexibility of use into all of our machines so that you can manage which ingredients you use, application rates and production volume. INNOVATION Working with AXIS means finding the solution to your unique production requirements and achieving the consistency and accuracy your product demands. Each machine is designed with both functionality and footprint in mind to streamline your process at an economical and eco-friendly price, ensuring you the highest return on investment. The success of our customers is the result of our dedication to the precision, flexibility and innovation of our equipment that is Built to Last and Designed to Deliver.™
DAST Consulting Services is a rapidly growing company that is part of a consortium of organizations with a vision to unlock financial resources so that every kid in America has access to a Christ-centered education. We collaborate with accredited non-public schools to help them leverage various revenue streams, including federal and state grant funding programs as well as innovative work-based learning initiatives. DAST also has an active venture studio (DAST Investments) with multiple portfolio companies, and a nonprofit (DAST Foundation) that recently launched a Classical Christian Microschool network.