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Velvet Taco names Chris Schultz as CEO [Photo: Velvet Taco]
Velvet Taco Names Former Voodoo Doughnut CEO as Its New Chief Executive
by Sandra Engelland | Dec 3, 2025
With a resumé that includes fast-growing and iconic brands selling doughnuts, pizza, and coffee, Chris Schultz brings more than 30 years of restaurant leadership experience.
by Lance Murray |
Nov 2, 2023
It’s the second CEO announcement for Dallas-based TGI Fridays in two months. The casual dining brand announced the replacement of Brandon Coleman, who resigned for personal reasons, with a longtime board member and restaurant industry veteran.
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by Quincy Preston |
Oct 25, 2023
Emerging from stealth in North Texas after 10+ years of R&D in Canada, PUG Interactive is out to prove there's a better way for brands to engage people. "Dallas-Fort Worth is the birthplace of loyalty," says Steve Bocska, PUG's CEO. "We're disrupting loyalty. What better place to do it than where loyalty was created?"
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by Lance Murray |
Aug 24, 2023
Led by Tarji Carter—also known as "The Franchise Player"—and marketing maven Dessie Brown Jr., the inaugural event is a symposium aimed at bringing together experts and industry leaders to discuss the secrets to success, challenges, and opportunities in franchising.
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Slemons, an experienced retail real estate developer, spent more than 10 years at Starbucks and Amazon in key retail leadership positions. The position expands the Unleashed leadership team and is intended to help franchisees who have recently signed franchise agreements to find the best real estate, secure leases, and get units opened quickly.
Unleashed Brands Expands Leadership Team, Adds New Role of Chief Development Officer
by Lance Murray | Apr 28, 2023
Slemons, an experienced retail real estate developer, spent more than 10 years at Starbucks and Amazon in key retail leadership positions. The position expands the Unleashed leadership team and is intended to help franchisees who have recently signed franchise agreements to find the best real estate, secure leases, and get units opened quickly.
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by Glenn Hunter |
Apr 13, 2023
Digital maestro Stephen Gillett is driving the health-tech subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. to become more self-sufficient as it staffs up its new office at Cypress Waters.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 23, 2023
Aaron Lobliner has been named as the first chief client officer and a member of the executive team at Richardon-based Cataboom, a leader in gamification and incentivized engagements....
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by Kevin Cummings |
May 3, 2022
The Fort Worth-based startup already engages with fans at college and NBA games and PGA Tour events. Now, as it raises a $5 million funding round to accelerate its growth, it's seeking to move beyond sports contests and into big concert events, a Digital Student service, and even suicide prevention.
Dallas Innovates talked to Co-Founder and CEO Cameron Fowler about his vision for his technology as an "all-in-one solution."
Dallas Innovates talked to Co-Founder and CEO Cameron Fowler about his vision for his technology as an "all-in-one solution."
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Starbucks Headed to Red Bird, Boosting Redevelopment
by Lance Murray | May 24, 2017
The store is part of a national initiative to open stores in at least 15 underserved communities in the U.S., and is scheduled to open in 2018.
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![Erica Kosemund, Chief Brand Officer, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; Gillian Breidenbach, Chief Partnership Officer, North Texas FWC Organizing Committee; Chief Gary Batton, Chief of Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; Monica Paul, Executive Director of Dallas Sports Commission and President of North Texas FWC Organizing Committee; John Hobbs, Senior Executive Officer of Communications, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; and Heidi Grant, Senior Executive Officer of Commerce Administration, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, celebrate Choctaw Casinos & Resorts becoming an Official Dallas World Cup 2026 Host City Supporter. [Photo: North Texas FWC Organizing Committee/Choctaw Casinos & Resorts]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/FIFA-Choctaw-dec-2025.jpg)
