Designed to optimize and grow your Fitness Business
FranConnect is a cloud-based platform that offers a single shared view of your multi-location retail business’ growth and operational performance across locations. FranConnect serves as the System of Record (SOR) for the location. Open, operate and engage from the location to the front-line employees. Serving as the backbone for more than 1,500 brands and 350,000 locations worldwide, FranConnect is trusted by these brands to facilitate location expansion, streamline operations, foster collaboration among locations, and boost profitability.
Open Locations Faster: Eliminate common workflow bottlenecks
Whether you are opening new locations or refreshing a location, everything must be carefully planned and managed. Signage and promotional materials must be in place. One mistake can lead to delays, costing thousands or more in lost sales.
FranConnect’s Opener solution reduces delays, miscommunication, and inefficiencies by managing all coordination tasks in one place – construction, training, grand opening, and more.
So, you open on time, every time.
Streamline Critical Tasks- automate vital tasks such as compliance and regulatory requirements. Proactively identify dependencies and milestones and track every step with notifications and status reporting.
Improve Stakeholder Collaboration- get visibility into every step of the onboarding process with productivity and collaboration tools that connect stakeholders to key documents, project plans, and milestones in real time.
Navigate with Transparency- Avoid delays and quickly resolve issues. Checklist templates offer transparency and consistency to the entire team and keep everyone on the same page.
C-level Visibility of Performance Across Your Locations
FranConnect helps executives & senior managers gain visibility across all functions, locations & consumer activity at the corporate and location-level.
Maintain Brand Consistency: Automate Compliance Checks for Improved Adherence to Standards
The customer experience is critical for restaurants. An exceptional experience translates to happy customers who return and recommend your restaurant. It all starts with brand consistency. The execution of safe food preparation, sanitation and other operating procedures must be consistent.
FranConnect enables you to streamline compliance initiatives such as inspections through automating checklists on a mobile device and aggregating performance within the FranConnect platform. Use data from completed inspections and compare performance across stores so you can put the right measures in place.
Better Tools for Your Operations Team to Work Across Locations
Creating a more scaled operations team to handle broad location growth goes beyond more efficiently executing checklists. Regional Directors need improved tools to see performance across regions and assign and track actions.
Performance is a two-way street. Standards need to be driven top-down from corporate, BUT successful performance is a result of good communications between corporate and the location managers.
Map-based visuals for thumbnails on locations and performance
Workflows + Tasks assigned and driven off of performance
Summary KPIs + Metrics for further discoverability
Corrective action plans can include learning curriculum for managers + front-line employees
Employee Engagement: More Engaged Front-Line Employees for Better Customer Experience
Learning and development is a critical tool in the toolkit for successful operations and drives improved unit economics for the owners. Better-trained employees means faster ramp time and less turnover.
FranConnect provides a way for fitness businesses to develop and deploy highly customized branded content to support front-line employee training for improved onboarding and engagement and enables brands to monitor engagement success at the unit-level. Operations teams are empowered to deliver and monitor best practice training, access up-to-the-minute data, staff training results, performance appraisals, and satisfaction surveys with benchmark reporting.
Hear how Boost Juice uses the World Manager tool to train their staff even before they enter a store, which increases safety and expedites training. Along with training, they utilize the platform as a main communication tool and operational efficiency program with the FBC’s.
Freddy's Frozen Custard
Hear how FranConnect software serves as the system of record to aggregate disparate data from sources across the enterprise at this fast-growing franchise business. Freddy’s is a new FranConnect customer.
PFD Foods
Discover PFD Foods’ e-learning transformation. ‘The Pantry’, as the staff calls it, enhances training with mobile access, compliance, communication, and precise records, which are now integral to the company’s daily operations.
Learn why FranConnect’s Customers Consistently Outperform Industry Benchmarks by 2.1x
Andrew Jackson
Chief Technology Officer
As CTO, Andrew is responsible for Product Architecture, Development and Deployment at FranConnect. Andrew has 30+ years’ experience leading global teams delivering highly scalable SaaS solutions for Telecoms, Media and Payments businesses. Prior to joining FranConnect, Andrew was CTO at Arterra Mobility; he has also held leadership positions at Synchronoss and Neustar.
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Lorena Garcia
Senior Vice President of Marketing
As SVP of Marketing, Lorena Garcia is responsible for the entire end-to-end marketing function at FranConnect, including driving growth through innovative and scalable practices in account-based marketing, lead generation, market analysis, customer segmentation, digital marketing, and brand stewardship. Previously, Lorena led go-to-market teams and demand generation at technology companies including Level Access, Hobsons, Vonage and iCore Networks.
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Paul Sharpe
General Manager A/NZ
As the General Manager of Australia/New Zealand (ANZ), Paul is responsible for all go-to-market activities for FranConnect in ANZ, including strategy, sales, customer success and the continued growth of all FranConnect product lines in ANZ. He has held senior leadership roles at Nexon, IBM, Samsung, and NTT Ltd, with extensive experience leading sales, product, and marketing teams. t, and marketing teams. As the General Manager of Australia/New Zealand (ANZ), Paul is responsible for all go-to-market activities for FranConnect in ANZ, including strategy, sales, customer success and the continued growth of all FranConnect product lines in ANZ.
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Stephanie Opoku
Senior Vice President of People
Stephanie oversees the global people operations across multiple countries including the US, Canada, India, Australia, and Colombia. Over the last five years, Stephanie has led the notable journey of building a solid foundation that supports our hardworking employees. She has successfully built programs that improve employee engagement and efficiency to ensure that FranConnect is a company of choice for top talent. Prior to joining FranConnect, Stephanie started and spent most of her HR career working for a leading tax publisher.
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Vikram Raj
Senior Vice President of Products and Solutions Engineering
Vikram Raj has over 15 years of experience in franchise and multi-location management software. As the Senior Vice President of Products & Sales Engineering at FranConnect, he drives the product roadmap by combining industry insight with customer feedback to foster continuous innovation. His responsibilities include leading cross-functional teams to align product priorities with market trends, guiding clients in evaluating technical solutions, and demonstrating the measurable value FranConnect’s platform provides. During his tenure at FranConnect, Vikram has led the release of new products and offerings that increased user adoption and contributed to double-digit annual revenue growth. He emphasizes data-driven decision-making, transparent collaboration, and a strong focus on measurable results—approaches that have strengthened FranConnect’s market position and delivered sustained value to its growing global customer base.
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Adam Walton
Chief Customer Officer
As Chief Customer Officer, Adam leads FranConnect’s customer success, professional services, and support teams, driving strategic initiatives that maximize customer value and long-term growth. With over 30 years of experience in B2B SaaS, Adam brings a cross-functional leadership approach shaped by roles across Customer, Product, Operations, and Sales.
Adam has held key executive positions at high-growth technology companies including CallMiner and most recently Cresta, where he helped scale customer experience and AI-driven solutions for enterprise clients. His leadership is grounded in a deep commitment to customer outcomes, with Net Retention as his guiding metric. Adam is passionate about building customer-first cultures and delivering innovative solutions that unlock measurable impact.
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Charlie Zhang
Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operating Officer
As CFO & COO, Charlie Zhang plays a pivotal role in aligning FranConnect’s financial strategy with its operational execution. He is responsible for driving fiscal discipline while enabling scalable growth and innovation across the organization. Charlie’s dual leadership ensures that the company remains agile and resilient as it expands its footprint in the franchise and multi-location technology space.
Charlie brings a wealth of experience in financial strategy, corporate development, and operational leadership, with a background spanning investment banking, private equity, and technology. Prior to joining FranConnect, he served as CFO of ION Analytics, where he led global financial operations for a data and software company serving capital markets.
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Mark Calvillo
Chief Product Officer
As Chief Product Officer, Mark Calvillo is responsible for shaping FranConnect’s product vision and translating it into a strategic roadmap that delivers measurable impact for customers. His leadership will focus on evolving the platform in alignment with market needs, driving innovation, and ensuring product excellence across the board.
Mark brings over two decades of experience in product leadership, most recently at Restaurant365. Known for his customer-first mindset and ability to turn insights into scalable solutions, Mark will guide FranConnect’s product strategy to support growth and deepen value for franchise and multi-location businesses.
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Ayron McLochlin
Chief Revenue Officer
As Chief Revenue Officer, Ayron McLochlin leads FranConnect’s global go‑to‑market and revenue organization. He is responsible for driving new customer acquisition, accelerating customer expansion, developing new markets, and overseeing pre‑sales consulting and revenue operations to support FranConnect’s continued year‑over‑year growth.
With more than 15 years of leadership experience in enterprise software, SaaS, and technology‑enabled services—and over a decade working with Private Equity–backed companies across Vista Equity Partners, K1, and MidOcean Partners—Ayron brings a proven track record of scaling organizations ranging from $10M to $600M in revenue. Known for his ability to transform commercial teams, he specializes in building high‑performing sales, marketing, customer success, and RevOps functions that create predictable and repeatable growth
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Ali Muskett
Chief of Staff
As Chief of Staff, Ali Muskett serves as a strategic partner to the CEO and CFO/COO, supporting critical cross-functional initiatives that advance FranConnect's key organizational priorities. She coordinates high-impact projects spanning multiple departments, ensures organizational alignment, and translates strategic vision into executable plans while maintaining accountability across initiatives.
Ali brings over five years of experience in the franchising space, having worked directly with hundreds of franchisors throughout her career. Her background includes leading high-performing sales teams and executing strategic initiatives that drive measurable results. Known for her ability to align cross-functional teams and support execution, Ali combines franchise industry expertise with strong leadership skills to help accelerate FranConnect's growth and operational excellence.
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