OUR MANAGEMENT TEAM

A highly experienced, innovative and compassionate team of professionals leads FirstLight HomeCare. The executive leadership team includes –

Jeff Bevis
Jeff Bevis is President and CEO with more than 24 years of experience in franchising and a very successful track record of accelerating growth in a variety of franchise concepts, including senior management leadership developing a major senior care franchise brand in a four-year span. Bevis has earned the Certified Franchise Executive (CFE) designation, meeting rigorous requirements from the franchising industry with a trademark reputation for building strong, trusting relationships with franchisees and enabling strong unit economics at the franchise level to build system success.

Allen Riggs
Allen Riggs is a Director of the company. Allen has more than 35 years of solid franchising leadership experience, driving success in a variety of major franchise concepts in healthcare and senior care sectors. He also has a strong track record of enabling outstanding relationships with franchisees while encouraging open, honest communications for the betterment of all stakeholders. Riggs was an invited delegate to the 2005 White House Council on Aging, which is held every ten years.

Bernard Markey
Bernard Markey is a Director of the company. Markey has extensive financial experience with more than 20 years in a series of private equity leadership roles. He is co-founder and managing partner of Navigator Partners and has led companies in a variety of industries as chairman or from a board level responsibility. Markey previously held positions in marketing with IBM, sales management with Mentor Computer Systems and was a financial analyst with U.S. Golf Management, Inc.

Bill Stewart
Bill Stewart is a Director of the company. Stewart possesses extensive investing, operating and turnaround experience and is a partner at Navigator Partners. He has successfully led organizations from a series of different roles including chief financial officer, managing director and board advisor. Stewart is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Devin Bevis
Devin Bevis is the Manager of Franchise Services and possesses a full understanding of delivering award-winning levels of customer service. Bevis is a graduate of the Ritz-Carlton Customer Service Training series, completing this curriculum while employed with the Ritz Carlton for three years. Bevis has also held positions in franchise development and database marketing in a multiple franchise concept environment. He also coordinates technology and Web application feasibilities to help FirstLight continually look for new, additional ways to help franchisees succeed and leverage technology.

Gina Kaurich
Gina is our Executive Director of Client Care Services. Gina started her healthcare career as a Candy Striper in Junior High and now has over 35 years of experience as a Registered Nurse. She is also credentialed as a Professional Geriatric Care Manager and certified as a Master Coach and Trainer. Her nursing career has extended through Clinical Administrator for a Hospital System, Director of Nursing in a Continuing Care Community, VP of Clinical Operations in Home Care and she volunteered as a Certified Paramedic for her local life squad. She has extensive experience in adult education, regulation, compliance, quality assurance, marketing, sales, and healthcare computerization. Gina enjoys computers, reading, gardening flowers and vegetables, decorating, needlework and sewing. She and her husband Harry share four children and seven grandchildren who keep them busy and grounded to what is truly important in life.

Shirley Weber
Shirley Weber has over 13 years of experience in the home care industry, having been a partner in and operated Houston’s largest and most successful senior home care company for eight years, with five additional years spent running her own successful home care consultant practice, working with independents and franchise systems alike with a solid track record of success. Weber has the business acumen and entrepreneurial experience to guide and support FirstLight franchisees, enabling their success. Based out of Houston, Texas, Weber will support FirstLight franchisees in the western half of the country.

Shirley is a graduate of the University of Houston with a Bachelor’s of Business Administration degree in Finance. She is a customer-service driven professional who believes that building strong, strategic relationships is the key to lasting success. Having provided home care services to the elderly and their families in the past, she understands and relates to FirstLight’s mission of providing quality care and service.

Dan Roberts
With a decade of business development and consultancy experience, Ohio native Dan Roberts joins FirstLight HomeCare as a director of business development and support. As a practitioner of best practices in business growth/change, Dan’s ability to identify new business opportunities, develop new markets, products and partnerships, and his strategic analytical skills make him an ideal asset to FirstLight’s corporate team. Dan is based out of Charlotte, N.C. and will support franchisees in the eastern half of the country.

Dan completed his undergraduate studies in business at University of Akron in Akron, Ohio and went on to receive a coaching certification in business and executive coaching, as well as multiple certifications in business training and process/project management. Prior to FirstLight, Dan has worked for a number of companies, most recently in management coaching/ consultancy and corporate education platforms. Dan also gives back to his community through his volunteer efforts as a crew leader for Habitat for Humanity, St.Judes and SPCA.

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