Our Guests for the January 8th/9th edition of PlayMakers Talk Show:

Tim Taft, CEO, Fiesta Restaurant Group

Jim Sturm, CEO, Brierley + Partners

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Tim Taft, CEO, Fiesta Restaurant Group

Fiesta Restaurant Group, Inc. President and CEO Tim Taft joined the company in August 2011 to spin it off from Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc., forming a separate, publicly traded company, Fiesta Restaurant Group, to operate the Taco Cabana and Pollo Tropical brands. Both brands have thrived under his leadership, celebrating record gains as one of the fastest-growing restaurant companies in the nation. In 2014, Fiesta is poised to launch its third brand, Cabana Grill, created by Taco Cabana, in Atlanta.

Tim is a restaurant and hospitality veteran with more than 35 years’ experience as a successful operator, marketer, brand builder and franchisor within the industry. Prior to joining Fiesta, Tim was president/CEO of SSI-Grandy’s LLC, and before that served in the same capacity at Pizza Inn Inc., where he was also a director from 2005-2007.

During his 10-year tenure at Whataburger, where he served as president and COO from 2000–2005 and in previous other senior management positions from 1994-2000, Whataburger achieved 44 quarters in a row of same store sales increases. It was also named a Texas Treasure by the Texas Legislature and Nation’s Restaurant News “Hot Again” concept.

FRGI.com

PolloTropical.com         TacoCabana.com

 Host, Steve A Klein, Tim Taft

Jim Sturm, CEO, Brierley + Partners

Jim Sturm joined Brierley+Partners in 2007, is now President and CEO, and leads the globally recognized company in loyalty and CRM marketing.

Brierley+Partners is a pioneer in Relationship Management®– advancing loyalty and CRM for more than 25 years. The company has designed and implemented some of the world’s most successful loyalty and CRM programs for clients such as GameStop, Hard Rock, Hertz, Bridgestone and 7-Eleven.

Jim’s reputation for creating industry-differentiating lifetime loyalty programs for his clients has driven double-digit growth at Brierley. All services focus on a single mission: Making clients’ customer relationships dramatically more profitable.

Brierley.com

Phone: (214) 760-8700

Host, Steve A Klein, Jim Sturm

Our Guests for the January 1st/3rd edition of PlayMakers Talk Show:

Nate Foreman, CEO, Foreman Therapy Services

Chris Drake, CEO, Armor

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Nate Foreman, CEO, Foreman Therapy Services

Nate Foreman is an Oklahoma City native that moved to Dallas in 2007 to attend Physical Therapy School at UT Southwestern.  Upon graduation, Nate took a job at a local sports medicine PT clinic.  Being an entrepreneur at heart, Nate always made a concerted effort to figure out what all his patients’ occupations were, and how their business worked.  In 2010, Nate took a part-time job at a local therapy staffing company to pay off some student loans.  In doing so, he learned the business and recognized a significant need in the industry.

In September 2011, Nate founded Foreman Therapy Services.  FTS is a healthcare staffing company that focuses in the Allied Health markets.  Foreman Therapy Services assists Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, and Speech Language Pathologists in finding jobs.

Headquartered in Dallas, FTS currently has more than 200 therapists on staff and have divisions in Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, and Houston.  FTS was a 2015 recipient of the Dallas 100 award, which recognizes the 100 fastest growing companies in Dallas. Nate and his company were also recently featured on the cover of the Dallas Business Journal.

ForemanTherapyServices.com

Phone: (214) 960-4038

Host, Steve A Klein, Nate Foreman

Chris Drake, CEO, Armor

As the founder and CEO of Armor, Chris Drake oversees the growth, direction, and innovation of the active cyber defense company’s solutions and services. Chris fights the status quo every day and ensures that the ‘smart creatives’ at Armor are protected for the benefit of its customers and to protect their sensitive data.

The leader in active cyber defense, Armor offers customer-centric security outcomes for retail and eCommerce enterprises, healthcare organizations, payment processors and financial institutions. Armor protects highly sensitive data for the most security-conscious companies in the world.

Armor.com

Phone: (844) 682-2858

Chris Drake, Host, Steve A Klein