Thomas Crage
Founder, Chair / Hire Intelligence International
Thomas Crage has been involved in franchising, both as a franchisor and franchisee, since September 1973.
Mr Crage has been a financial controller of KFC in South Africa and the United Kingdom; administrative controller of KFC in the UK; and director of finance for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Heublein International. Heublein owned KFC, Smirnoff Vodka, Californian and Portuguese wineries and a host of other products. In Perth, one of his companies operated Chicken Treat franchises granting sub-franchises. It was sold in 1995.
Mr Crage established Hire Intelligence in February 1996 and grew it from one outlet in Perth to outlets across Australia, the UK and Ireland.