Founder

About Jeff Dudan

Jeff is a franchise executive with over 30 years of experience founding, building, operating, and exiting national franchise brands.

Jeff’s journey as an entrepreneur began as a college athlete who founded a business to paint student housing. After graduation, he assisted South Florida in recovering from Hurricane Andrew which led to the launch of AdvantaClean in 1994.


As a leading national restoration franchise, AdvantaClean became a strategic partner with St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital to support families when they needed it the most. In January of 2019, AdvantaClean was acquired by Home Franchise Concepts (HFC) to create a combined network of over 1,700 franchise territories operating in 11,000 cities in the US, Canada and Mexico.

Jeff has always valued learning, teaching, coaching, and using all three of these things to build businesses. Post-AdvantaClean, he decided he wanted to find a way to share everything that he learned in the 25 years of building AdvantaClean. Instead of sharing increments of knowledge only with the people he came into contact with, he wanted to find ways to share what he learned to help others exponentially. From this desire, Dudan Group was born. 

Jeff is a published author, Forbes contributor, speaker, and consultant to emerging brands. He has served YPO as the Chapter Chair of the Southeast Regional US Chapter, as a member of The Chief Executives Organization (CEO), Novant Health as an Advisory Board member, the IFA Franchisor Forum and FranPac Advisory Board as a member, and is a tireless advocate for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.



Jeff lives in Cornelius, NC, with his wife, Traci, and three kids, Zack, Maelee, and Jack. He enjoys fishing, coaching youth sports teams, and spending time with his favorite rescue dog, Charlie.

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