Michael Deegan
Managing Director
Mike Deegan has been in the franchise foodservice industry for more than 40 years working with major concept brands such as McDonald’s, Burger King and Popeyes. Throughout his career he has held a variety of positions in Franchising, Business Development, Real Estate Development and Marketing/Advertising.
Mike joined National Franchise Sales in 2007 to use his considerable expertise in franchising and business development to broker the transfer of franchise restaurant businesses. While he works with numerous different franchise concepts his real specialty is with quick service restaurants. Today Mike is the Brand Manager for several key brands and consistently works with many franchisees from coast to coast. Many of his assignments during this period have been to secure qualified buyers for debtors operating under Chapter 11 protection.
Prior to joining NFS Mike was the Vice President of Franchising for Burger King Corporation. In this capacity he was responsible for franchisee recruitment, compliance and relations in North America. While in this role he represented the franchisor in two of the largest franchisee bankruptcy proceedings in the company’s history. His responsibility was to direct the efforts of the brokers, debtors, attorneys and advisors, as well as the internal BKC task force, in the successful organized resale of more than 500 restaurants around the country. The businesses were sold off in geographically contiguous lots in a series of contemporaneous transactions.
Other assignments while at BKC included the development of a market planning system for optimization of the company’s real estate and franchisee portfolios, management of all USA franchisee restaurant development efforts and also the management of all Latin American restaurant development. Mike has also held various positions in marketing and advertising at BKC as well other restaurant companies and advertising agencies.
A graduate with distinction from the University of Miami, Mike received his bachelor of Business Administration while majoring in a curriculum of International Finance and Marketing.
