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Mr. Ashton our Managing Partner is a successful serial entrepreneur and Former Franchise Top 10 Director of Finance, Controller and Inc 500 CFO with a 20+ -year track record of starting, fixing, growing and selling businesses - his own and his client's.
Let me ask you a question what businesses operate with a national brand and in most all cases never close or run out of cash or go out of business?
Got the right answer - Yes Franchises -
So you own a business competitive to them or a current franchise with little support from the home office and you are already at a disadvantage correct?
So who can help you become more profitable than a franchise 7-14% MORE THAN A FRANCHISE..
A CONSULTANT WHO KNOWS FRANCHISING, WHO WAS A DIRECTOR AND CONTROLLER FOR MANY YEARS IN FRANCHISING.
Yes we can good answer!
So how can we help you?
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In addition to his formal education and 15 years in franchising, (HEARD OF COTTMAN TRANSMISSION, AAMCO TRANSMISSION, MEINEKE, ECONOLUBE, MAACO, SUBWAY, WENDYS WE HAVE CONSULTED OR WORKED DIRECTLY FOR THESE FRANCHISES AND OUR NON COMPETES ARE NOW OVER AND WE CAN ASSIST YOU) Plus we have 20 + years in Retail, Automotive and Manufacturing.
Mr Ashton in his own business, he has a wealth of real-world expertise in management, finance, financial workouts, sales and marketing, operations, M&A and other areas which he developed “in the trenches” while building his Franchisors Companies and helping his clients.
"Mr Ashton when I went to work for Meineke (as Director of Finance) thay were just Meineke now they are a multi franchise network with a dozen brands (over 4000 franchisees) called Driven Brands"
He further honed and continues to hone these skills through years of helping his many franchisees (over 4000) at 2 top ten Franchisors and now clients build their businesses.
Mr. Ashton has helped numerous companies, from start-ups to divisions of fortune 500 companies, fix the immediate problems they were facing and grow their businesses. (see our "clients" page)
He serves on the boards of a several businesses and organizations, including the Turnaround Management Association (FL Chapter) Turnaround Management Association is a premier industry association for business turnaround professionals with over 10,000 members internationally. National Financial Recovery Assoc www.nfrai.org.
As a lifelong learner, he continues to sharpen his skills through working with his clients, continuing education and teaching.
This background has given him a perspective seldom seen by "advisors" who talk about starting, fixing and growing companies from a theoretical stand point but have never really experienced for themselves what it takes to accomplish those.
Mr. Ashton excels at learning each client’s business rapidly while helping them "turn it arround" and he has a consistent record of guiding companies out of murky waters and setting them on the path of success.
He has a BA in Accounting and MBA in Finance and LLM in Taxation witha minor in international taxation from Suffolk University, and working on a second MBA in Accounting at Saint Leo University.
With education and experience like this who do you want to help you turn it arround? Contact/call us to start, fixing, funding, growing and selling your companies?
Please contact us below to get started!