Wellness franchise platform empowering entrepreneurship centered around self-care.
We focus on self-care brands that promote confidence and make people feel good.
Wellness, self-care, and lifestyle brands that make people feel good.
Our centralized support model and complimentary brand portfolio unlocks leading operational know-how and expertise.
With deep operational franchising expertise and a strategic focus on membership-based wellness and beauty brands, we replicate operational playbooks across complimentary brands, creating cross-functional business synergies. By unlocking data insights from multiple brands and creating economies of scale, we are able to provide our franchise partners better support, more business insights, and unparalleled brand knowledge to enable stronger unit-level economics and growth.
Are you passionate about working with leading brands in beauty, wellness, and lifestyle?
We are always seeking talented individuals to join our dynamic team.
Talented Professionals
JAN ZALUD | Founder & CEO
Jan is the Founder and CEO of FG Brands and is responsible for operational excellence of each brand. Past experiences include investment banking, venture capital and private equity investments across variety of industries and investment strategies where he completed over $150 million in financial advisory and capital raise engagements. Jan has a deep expertise across wellness, retail, and consumer segments. He served as a Board Member, a member of franchise advisory committee, and an advisor to companies founders and CEOs. Jan holds BS in Business Management, MBA with concentration in Finance and is a CAIA charter holder (Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst). Jan was a collegiate athlete, playing Division I and II college basketball and currently lives in Atlanta with his wife and two daughters.
TRACI DALSIN | VP of Operations & Real Estate | FGB
Traci Dalsin has over 20 years in retail real estate, investment properties, and operations management both as a senior executive in a large international REIT and as president of a regional real estate investment firm. Traci has a strong background in melding investments and operations to achieve positive outcomes and returns for all stakeholders. Traci was also one of the leading multi-unit franchisees of a nail beauty brand which offered innovative membership, healthy, and clean nail care located in Madison, Wisconsin. She has spearheaded the opening and management of our Madison, Wisconsin studio, achieving consistent growth and excellent customer service.
ALEX RUSSO | Fractional Director of Marketing | FGB
Alex’s experience spans across number of beauty and wellness franchise brands and consulting engagements. Most recently, she served as fractional CMO for Apollo CMO where she consulted with number of beauty and wellness franchise brands. Previously, she held various marketing roles in Deka Lash, a beauty brand with over 130 locations nationwide, where she served as the brand’s VP of Marketing and Branding.
CHERYL DACEY | Fractional Director of Franchise Development | FGB
Cheryl brings 30+ years of dynamic sales and leadership experience spanning franchise development, wellness, and entrepreneurship to the team. As a proven business builder, she has successfully scaled multiple brands including achieving seven-figure success as a top 1% leader with North America’s #1 premium skincare brand and founding/operating her own hospitality franchise for over 12 years. As CEO and Founder of The Dacey Group, she empowers businesses to unlock their financial potential through strategic optimization. Cheryl holds deep expertise in membership-based business models and understands what it takes to build profitable wellness brands. When she’s not helping entrepreneurs achieve their franchise dreams, Cheryl enjoys traveling and spending time with her husband Sean and their two college-age children.
Our team
Strategic Advisors
Brian has been the Chief Executive of ML Healthcare, LLC, a medical management and healthcare funding company, since 2007. Prior to joining ML Healthcare, Brian has been the principal of Freeport Holdings, LLC, a private business development company. Before the formation of Freeport Holdings, Brian was co-founder of Cbeyond, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBEY), an IP based business communications company. Brian held several senior executive positions from 1999 through 2006. During those years, Cbeyond transitioned from a venture-funded start-up into a profitable publicly traded corporation with over $275MM in revenues and over a $1.2B market capitalization.
Emily has passion for health and wellness with over 8 years managing and operating in the boutique fitness industry, having managed over 16 studios and previously owning/operating 2 Orangetheory Fitness studios. She has utilized expertise spanning sales, operations, revenue generation, innovative solutions, cost control, client relationship management and pre-sales to successfully execute a profitable recurring revenue, membership-based business model.
We believe in self-care. We believe in living well and feeling good.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” — Theodore Roosevelt