Jim Brennan ’85 was recently featured in the BusinessWest article “Healthy Growth Pattern” on January 15, 2013. BusinessWest, the business journal of Western Massachusetts, named Brennan and business partner Rick Crews the top entrepreneurs for 2012.
Crews and Brennan are master franchisees of the regional branch of Doctors Express, a national chain of urgent-care centers.
According to the article, the partners now have locations in Springfield, West Springfield, and the Greater Boston area, with a goal of 30 locations in the next two or three years.
According to the article, the two were named the year’s top entrepreneurs due to “The speed and efficiency with which Crews and Brennan have taken the Doctors Express brand across the state, and for the aggressive yet calculated way in which they carried out the plan they outlined”.