David W. Bulger is a take-charge, broad-lens business development and operations executive with deep roots in the restaurant and franchising industries. His successful career journey is underscored by high-impact accomplishments with top corporations such as Subway, Dunkin’, and The Walt Disney Company.
David’s career spans 30+ years, driving breakthrough revenue and profit growth via best-in-class business process optimization, operations transformation, and ‘Walt Disney benchmark’ customer-service.
The hallmark of his success is his ability to consistently achieve quantifiable results in a business with complex ecosystems by linking opportunity with resources and actualizing strategic plans through tight execution—while considering the brand, the consumer, and stakeholders with diverse, and sometimes opposing, interest.
David Bulger was most recently the Director, Business Development for Subway Market Operations (SMO). He received a Company Award for Excellence in Innovation in 2021 for the work he did implementing and executing systems and process that were used to triage, transition, and assimilate over 13,000 restaurants from Business Development Agent to SMO Direct Support.
Driven by a belief that execution is the most critical part of a business agenda, David Bulger has become a well-known metrics-driven expert, who specializes in optimizing Franchisee/Franchisor value. His team executed tactics that consolidated 83 franchise networks in a 17 month period.
Early-seeded industry ‘know-how’ can be traced back to his entrepreneurial experience on the front-lines of a fast-paced restaurant—Bulger’s Dockside Restaurant and Motel, O’Naturals—and with the Walt Disney Company as a Guest Services Manager.
As a manager of teams, David has built world-class high-performance organizational cultures inspired by accountability, quality, and customer satisfaction. His relationship building skills have served instrumentally in the development of franchise owners.
