BARKLEY VENTURES, INC.
OAKLAND PARK, FLORIDA

– Chris Gaba, and Jackie Jordon, Co-founders of Barkley Ventures, Inc and the Central Bark franchise system. Central Bark Doggy Day Care is your dog’s home away from home. Our clean, healthy, fun and nurturing environment gives your dogs everything they need to have an extraordinary day, every day. We focus on exercise, socialization and training so when you’re reunited with your pooch at the end of the day, you’ll enjoy the company of a happier, healthier, better-behaved dog! Today, we’re dedicated to our dogma of providing personalized pet care in a safe atmosphere. We strive to provide a variety of superior services that set the standard for excellent canine care, to improve the quality of your dog’s life and enhance your family’s relationship with your canine companion. It is our dogma to provide personalized pet care in an environment that is clean, safe and fun as an alternative to kennel boarding and lonely days at home. As a leader in the industry, we will continually strive to provide a variety of superior services and set the standard for excellence in canine care that will help dogs become better canine citizens, improve the quality of dogs’ lives and enhance canine/parent relationships. She earned her B.S. degree in Sociology, minoring in Business Administration and an A.S. degree in Veterinary Technology from North Dakota State University. After years in corporate America, working for companies such as Pfizer Pharmaceuticals and Marshal Fields in Sales and Marketing positions, she decided it was time to do her lifelong dream, and was thrilled to be able to combine her degrees and her passion to create Doggy Day Care, Inc. in 1997. After opening her first facility she was invited to enter a Business Plan Writing competition at the University of Chicago Business School. The plan was written and developed to take Doggy Day Care nationally. While there were officially only 3 businesses awarded prizes, the judges (all Graduates of the University of Chicago MBA program and current Venture Capitalists) were impressed with the idea that was presented and awarded Doggy Day Care 4 place. Because of this competition and her personally developed Doggy Day Care software program, Jackie was contacted and featured in Newsweek Magazine in 2011, highlighting successful small business operators and their use of technology in their business operations. Her sales and marketing background, along with her business acumen has helped build her day care facilities as well as the dog day care industry. When Jackie began this business, doggy day care was an unknown industry. Seventeen years later, it’s a service people seek out for their dogs. In 2006 Jackie was honored to be invited as a member of the Cambridge Who’s Who in Business. In 1999, Chris decided it was time to hang up the suit and follow his passion. He opened Central Bark Dog Day Care and Training Center, Inc. in Fort Lauderdale, FL and in less than three years the business had grown into one of the most successful new business ventures in Broward County. In 2003 Chris merged his Company with Jackie Jordan to form Central Bark Doggy Day Care. Today, Chris lives in Fort Lauderdale with his Partner and their 2 children and their Brussels Griffon, Jack. BARKLEY VENTURES, INC Barkley Ventures, Inc. is the parent company of the Central Bark Doggy Day Care franchise system. It was created as a partnership between two like-minded doggy day care professionals with more than 20 years of combined business experience. Jackie Jordan and Chris Gaba joined forces in 2003 to create the most comprehensive doggy day care program available. By closely evaluating their own individual operations, they collaboratively developed an unparalleled system of best practices and criteria for doggy day care. Simply no other day care operation compares with the systems, operations, philosophy, and support offered through Barkley Ventures, Inc. For those who are interested in joining the fast-growing field of doggy day care, Barkley Ventures has the experience and expertise to turn those dreams into action. Are you dreaming of a career in canine care? Find out how you can get involved today by going to your Central Bark® Doggy Day Care’s events page. Or if you are running an event or fundraiser for the canine community or having a community awareness event and would like our help, please If efforts to support our drive and duty, we created our corporate charity program called Dog Bless America. In 2003 we designed a tribute t-shirt and dog bandana and donated 100% of the proceeds to our nation’s service dogs working with the military. The program grew when we combined efforts with Sister Pauline Quinn and Pathways to Hope in helping to provide needed service dogs for our injured Veterans returning home. In 2010 we continued to expand this canine commitment and we now work with a different dog charity every year. HUA is located on a 65 acre farm in rural Nebraska. They currently have about 400 dogs and 20 cats at the shelter. HUA differs from other shelters because the dogs share large yards where they get to romp and play with friends. The dogs stay in villas or condos while at HUA, many of which have couches and chairs in them to help the dogs get ready for the transition to a new home. Most of the ‘staff’ at HUA are volunteers; they do this, and dedicate their lives, for the love of the animals. Hearts United is not only about helping animals in need, they also help people in need. One of the truest testaments of this is their Tia’s Place program. Tia’s Place provides refuge to pets of families who are fleeing domestic violence. Many times people are reluctant to leave an abusive situation because they will not leave their pets. Often children and pets are the subject of the abuse themselves. Tia’s Place offers refuge for these pets and HUA will keep the pets safe until the family can create a new life and get their pet back. If they are unable to retrieve their pet, Hearts United will find a new home for the pet. HUA covers all costs for any animal in the program. Central Bark is honored to be working with HUA!