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COVE Animal Health is a veterinarian-led network of veterinary hospitals providing integrated primary care, emergency, and specialty services across several states in the Northeastern United States, including Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. Originally founded in 1937 as Pieper Veterinary in Middletown, CT, COVE has grown into a multi-state network with over 1,000 team members and four hospital systems. COVE offers a comprehensive range of veterinary services, including routine wellness care, 24/7 emergency services, and advanced specialty care in areas such as internal medicine, ophthalmology, and surgery. The company operates a hub-and-spoke model that ensures seamless coordination among its hospitals, enhancing collaboration and resource sharing. COVE is committed to maintaining local ownership and community connections while fostering a culture of mentorship and professional development for veterinary teams.
Tasty Restaurant Group LLC (TRG) is based in Dallas, Texas, and focuses on operating and expanding a portfolio of popular restaurant brands. As an affiliate of Triton Pacific Capital Partners, TRG emphasizes the importance of strong teams in delivering exceptional service and quality to guests, which is vital for the success of its brands. The company provides operational and managerial support to its restaurants, concentrating on talent development, guest experiences, and community engagement. TRG operates a diverse range of franchised restaurants, including well-known names like Pizza Hut, Burger King, Dunkin, Baskin-Robbins, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), and Taco Bell. With a presence in at least 21 states, TRG aims to improve existing locations and expand through strategic acquisitions, supported by a leadership team with extensive experience in the restaurant industry.
Flynn Group is the largest franchise operator in the United States, focusing on multi-brand restaurant and retail operations. Founded in 1999 by Greg Flynn, the company has expanded significantly from its beginnings as a single-market Applebee’s operator. It now manages a diverse portfolio that includes well-known brands such as Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Panera Bread, and Arby’s, with over 2,500 locations across the country. The company specializes in franchise management, acquiring and optimizing underperforming locations to enhance operational efficiency and drive sales growth. Flynn Groups acquisition strategy has led to substantial growth, including the recent addition of 45 Pizza Hut locations in 2025, bringing its total to over 1,000. With a people-first approach, Flynn Group emphasizes employee training and retention, ensuring consistent customer experiences across its various dining segments.
With headquarters in the greater St. Louis region, UNCOMN provides Industry-Leading B2B Management and Technology Consulting Services. We are a diverse group of engineers, architects, analysts, hackers, and geeks who thrive on finding elegant solutions to wickedly complex organizational, logistic, process, data, and technical problems. In everything we do, we pursue truth, goodness, and beauty. We put people first and hire for the long-term, not for the contract. We put the right people in the right roles. We work with rigor, transparency, and excellence – doing whatever it takes while upholding unquestionable integrity, from start to finish. And we do so with the intention of making our team, clients, and communities better along the way. At UNCOMN, we arent just about profits and the bottom line. We uphold service before self, giving over receiving and social impact over siloing. Its our duty as industry experts to lead by example, share what we know and help create strong, vibrant communities in which we are proud to live and serve. We invest in and mentor for SixThirty CYBER, a business development program that offers cyber security-based technology startups with up to $250,000 of services each year. Through these services, the St. Louis regions top executives and chief information security officers provide hands-on training, mentoring and network opportunities to the startups key stakeholders.