Ethan Franklin
Managing Director

Ethan has a broad educational background including degrees in Engineering (BS and MS) and
Business (MBA) from the University of Illinois. He is also a licensed attorney, graduating from
the Loyola School of Law in Chicago. He spent the early years of his career in the telecommunications industry working in the strategy, engineering and finance arenas. He then became general manager for a small specialty chemical company. For the last decade he has focused his talents on the operational consulting industry as the Vice President of Delivery for Coleman Consulting (CCG) and later Blue Pumpkin. There he led the consulting teams on projects in a wide array of industries including mining, manufacturing, telecommunications, power utilities (generating, transmission and distribution) and service. He joins John Frehse as one of the two original founders of Core Practice Partners. He currently runs the consulting operations and serves as General Counsel.

John W. Frehse
Chief Strategist

John is a graduate of Wake Forest University and before starting Core Practice Partners with
Ethan Franklin was employed at Merrill Lynch as a Wealth Management Advisor. He later
worked at CCG as a Senior Project Manager. During the acquisition of CCG by Blue Pumpkin
Software in 2000 he transitioned to business development and became the Best Practices
Advocate for labor management strategies and lectured internationally on this topic. John brings
a wealth of knowledge to the company as well as a passion for corporate education on labor
strategy and industry best practices.