Patrick E. Alcorn and Rich Ashe have much in common beyond their military service.
Patrick was in the United States Army, including time as a Cadet at West Point. Rich served in the United States Marine Corps from 1976 to 1984 in the infantry and then as part of a joint Marine, Navy, and Air Force intelligence project.
Together they are helping fellow veterans build a business beyond the battlefield.
Patrick Alcorn is the Director of the Veterans Business Outreach Center University of Texas Arlington. Rich Ashe is the founder and president of Veteran Franchise Advisers.
Listen in to this special Veterans episode of The Franchise Woman podcast: Where Passion & Purpose Collide.
Meet Patrick E. Alcorn, MBA
Patrick Alcorn is Director of the Veterans Business Outreach Center University of Texas Arlington. He served nine years in the United States Army, including time as a Cadet at West Point. He has been an NCAA athlete, a combat engineer, a deputy city councilman, and an award-winning sales professional.
Patrick is a 2016 SBA Small Business Champion of the Year and a 2018 Fort Worth Business Press C-Suite Award recipient. His presentations deliver power, passion and a dynamic experience to inspire you to focus on value, leverage resources, implement strategies and persist in building your business beyond the battlefield.
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Meet Richard Ashe, CFC
Rich Ashe is the founder and president of Veteran Franchise Advisers.
Rich served in the United States Marine Corps from 1976 to 1984 in the infantry and then as part of a joint Marine, Navy, and Air Force intelligence project. After his tenure in the Marine Corp, Rich attained a degree in Marketing and Business Management.
Rich has worked for Fortune 500 companies such as Chase, Xerox, Compaq, and Hewlett Packard to expand or start new businesses.
During his 30 years in business, Rich helped to launch three software start-ups and participated in two successful IPO’s. As an entrepreneur, Rich started two businesses of his own; a computer training service and an IT Network consulting firm. Rich also operated two franchises before starting Veteran Franchise Advisers.
Rich became a Certified Franchise Consultant and founded Veteran Franchise Advisers in 2011. A member of the Franchise Brokers Association, Texas Veterans Chamber of Commerce, Lone Star Veterans Association, he works along with the SBA and SCORE teaching courses on business start-ups. Rich served on the International Franchise Association VetFran committee from 2011 – 2013. Rich founded Veteran Franchise Advisers to assist veterans, past, present, and future, interested in exploring franchise business ownership. Over the last ten years, he has served veterans across the nation to launch franchise businesses in multiple industries.
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