Ryan Cunningham, President

Ryan Cunningham is the founder and President of the national firm of Javelin Solutions. Prior to launching Javelin Solutions, Mr. Cunningham was a twenty-year veteran of the world’s largest commercial real estate firm, in the role of Executive Vice President. During his tenure, Mr. Cunningham negotiated over 500 leases, representing retail clients such as Circle K convenience stores, Sprint PCS phone stores and Bank of America branches, and developed an extensive national network of local real estate brokers.

Javelin Solutions develops and manages the site selection process for franchise systems. Using its network of local market experts, Javelin assures its clients consistent, high performing sites are found in a timely, cost-effective manner. Successful franchise systems utilizing Javelin’s services include FasTracKids, Floyd’s, Gelazzi, Blendz, Wingman and JungleQuest.

In addition to being a regular contributor to Franchise Times and Franchising World, Mr. Cunningham has been the featured speaker at Franchise Business Network events throughout the country, an expert site selection panelist for The Leadership and Development Conference and has taught at a number of Franchising 101 seminars. Mr. Cunningham recently completed a revision of the Site Selection Chapter of Franchising for Dummies, second edition.

Jason Nirvelli, Vice President

Jason Nirvelli brings an impressive real estate and operations background to the Javelin Solutions team. Prior to joining Javelin Solutions in 2006, Mr. Nirvelli was a Regional Project Sales and Training Manager for a national real estate firm which is the largest property buyer and seller in the nation. Mr. Nirvelli has also specialized in tenant representation for a real estate brokerage firm in Colorado.

Mr. Nirvelli’s previous experience as an operations manager, sales leader, and real estate broker, provides Javelin Solutions’ clients the best real estate sites for their franchise model. Through negotiations to keep lease provisions reasonable, Mr. Nirvelli’s goal is to keep a franchisee’s real estate site performing as an asset, rather than a liability. Franchises fail for a variety of reasons. Eliminating poor real estate site selection as one of those reasons is Mr. Nirvelli’s mission.