Corey Benish steps into the top job with a three-decade technology and operations background and a mandate to grow the home services portfolio.
Home Franchise Concepts, the home services portfolio company backed by JM Family Enterprises, promoted Corey Benish from COO of information technology to president and CEO. Benish replaces Andrew Skehan, who retired. The transition puts a technology-first operator into the top role of a brand that spans professional cleaning, pet care, and home restoration across hundreds of franchised locations.
Benish cited three advantages the business carries into his tenure: the scale of the home services market, the depth of the existing franchise system, and JM Family's financial backing. He framed his goal as building what he called win-win moments across franchisees, consumers, and brand partners. Whether that translates into lower royalty friction, better field support, or new technology tools will become clear in the next operating cycle.
When a franchisor's CEO changes, the operational philosophy at the top shifts too. Benish came up through technology and operations, not franchise sales. That background typically produces an agenda weighted toward systems, compliance, and unit-level profitability rather than raw headcount growth. For existing Home Franchise Concepts owners, that tends to be a net positive. Brands that prioritize existing franchisee success over aggressive new signings usually build stronger systems over time.
Home services franchise categories have held up through economic cycles because the underlying demand is not discretionary. Aging housing stock, dual-income households, and shrinking DIY willingness all feed the category. Benish noted that Home Franchise Concepts has operated in this space for more than 30 years, which means its franchisee performance data across multiple economic cycles is a competitive differentiator when selling new territories.
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