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Bobby Brennan is managing director at Front Street Equity Partners and leads franchise development for Franchise Accelerator. He helps founders build the people and infrastructure behind growth, and bring on the right franchise owners. He works broker and organic leads, owns the pipeline from first conversation through award, and cares more about who gets in early than how many awards hit a slide.

Erik Van Horn is a co-founder of Front Street Equity Partners and Franchise Accelerator, and the host of the Franchise Secrets podcast. He's spent 20+ years in franchising as a franchisee, multi-unit operator, franchisor, and advisor. At Franchise Accelerator he focuses on brand sourcing, talent, marketing, and practical AI so founders can grow without living in development.

Jeff Herr is co-founder and managing partner of Front Street Equity Partners. He is the strategy and growth partner founders usually meet first: go-to-market, scale, and building real enterprise value. He helps brands see whether Front Street should run development or coach their team, with a bias toward protecting the brand and building something worth owning long term.

Jim Jagers is co-founder and managing director of Front Street Equity Partners. He owns the operations and finance side: systems, process, teams, and the numbers behind scale. Founders lean on him when the conversation turns from vision to how the business will actually run as locations and franchisees stack up.

Manny Guzman leads Franchise Accelerator day to day. He comes out of franchise operations and development: building onboarding, coaching, field support, and the systems brands need to scale. At Franchise Accelerator he runs Copilot with emerging brands, helps founders get clear on process and pipeline, and keeps the work moving so founders can grow without living in development.