"We are in the people business, serving food."
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Leadership Team
Market Presidents
Apple American is built on a substantially decentralized business model. Each geographic region is led by a Market President who operates his or her market with great local autonomy while receiving administrative and financial support from the central organization.
Our Market Presidents are:
| Monty Davis |
Indiana |
| Bob Durrin |
Ohio |
| Gary Koch |
New Jersey/Delaware |
| Keith Morrow |
Pennsylvania/W. Virginia |
| Dan Krebsbach |
Washington & Northern California |
| Mike Hebert |
Southern California & Southern Nevada |
Together, this team represents over 80 years in the Applebee’s system and over 180 years in the restaurant industry.
Executive Team
Greg Flynn
 Greg Flynn is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple American Group LLC. Greg launched the business in 1998 by acquiring the Washington State Applebee’s market with 8 restaurants. Since then he has focused on growing the business into one of the nation’s premier restaurant companies.
Greg is also the Founder and President of Flynn Properties Inc. FPI acquires, develops, and manages Class A & B office properties in the western United States. Since 1994, FPI has as sourced, negotiated and closed the acquisition of office properties with an aggregate market value in excess of $400 million.
Greg holds an A.B. degree magna cum laude from Brown University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa; an M.A. degree in American History from Yale University; and an M.B.A. degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He further earned an M.Lit.St. degree from the University of Queensland, Australia, while visiting as a Rotary Foundation Graduate Fellow. Prior to founding FPI and AAG, Greg worked at Eastdil Realty in San Francisco, CS First Boston in New York and London, and Goldman Sachs International in London.
Greg is a member of the Applebee’s Franchise Business Council, serves on the board of Centralized Supply Chain Services, LLC, chairs the board of the Golden Gate Chapter of the Young Presidents Organization, and serves as co-chairman of the capital campaign for Schools of the Sacred Heart in San Francisco.
Greg is married and has two sons and one daughter.
Brad Pettinger
 Brad Pettinger has worked with Greg Flynn for eleven years and with AAG since its founding in 1998. As Chief Operating Officer of AAG, he is currently responsible for overall company operations. Direct reports include all Market Presidents, Purchasing and Marketing.
Prior to joining AAG, Brad served as VP, U.S. Operations, for Vancouver-based Spectra Group of Restaurants and VP, Operations, for Keg Restaurants.
Brad holds a B.S.B.A. in Hotel and Restaurant Management from the University of Denver and an M.B.A. from the University of Washington.
Brad is married and has one son and one daughter.
Lorin Cortina
 Lorin Cortina joined Apple American Group in 2001 and serves as its Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer overseeing finance, corporate and new unit development.
Prior to joining AAG, Lorin was a VP, Investments for Starwood Financial, Inc. (NYSE: SFI) and VP, Acquisitions and AVP, Capital Markets at TriNet Corporate Realty Trust, Inc. Lorin was also a Senior Associate in the Real Estate Financial Advisory Services Practice of PriceWaterhouseCoopers and a Senior Consultant with Deloitte & Touche where he earned his California C.P.A. license. Lorin has held senior management positions involved in corporate finance, public and private capital raising, project finance, financial planning and real estate investment and corporate M&A activities and participated or led in the raising of nearly $1 billion in debt and equity, the negotiation of syndicated credit facilities and the closing and subsequent oversight of over $700 million in investment and M&A transactions.
Lorin received a B.A. in Business/Economics cum laude from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1988 and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1993.
Lorin is married and has one daughter.
Jim Gamelin
 Jim Gamelin serves as Senior VP, People, for AAG. He is responsible for company-wide Human Resources and leads AAG’s Support Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
Before joining AAG, Jim was a founder and principal for iProcess Online, Inc. a business process outsourcing firm based in Baltimore Maryland focusing on start-up and middle market companies from the hospitality, manufacturing, accounting, legal and investment companies. Jim has headed global human resources for Vicorp.com, a software development subsidiary of Qwest Communications, Denver. He also was a member of the business initiation team and senior human resources executive for HomeSpace, Inc., Denver, an online mortgage processing and real estate that subsequently has become Lendingtree.com.
Jim held the senior human resources executive post for Boston Chicken International, Inc. (BCI), Denver, assuming this position following the acquisition of Mid-Atlantic Restaurants, LLC, Philadelphia, his Boston Market funded area development partnership group, by BCI where Jim was partner and the SVP Human Resources.
Jim holds a B.B.A. in Labor Relations from Western Michigan University.
Jim has two daughters and one son.
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