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Who We Are

Built by HR experts.
Run by hospitality operators.

The Wilkinson Firm started as an HR consultancy. When hospitality clients asked us to solve their staffing problems, we did not just send bodies. We built a system.

How TWF Started

The Wilkinson Firm was founded as an HR consultancy serving health and human services organizations. When a hospitality client asked if we could help solve their chronic staffing problems, we said yes - but we refused to do it the way everyone else was doing it.

Most staffing agencies send warm bodies and hope for the best. We applied the same rigor we brought to HR: structured onboarding, performance accountability, training systems, compliance frameworks, and real leadership on the floor.

That approach became TWF Hospitality. Today, we deploy trained teams to hotels, convention centers, and event venues across the Southeast. Every team member is rated after every shift. Every captain graduates from our internal leadership program. Every deployment is managed, not just staffed.

Our Mission & Values

The Gold Standard™

We do not compete on price. We compete on reliability, professionalism, and the standard your guests experience. Gold Standard is not a slogan. It is an operating philosophy.

Be Legendary

Every team member who puts on our uniform represents something larger than a shift. We train people to deliver service that guests remember and properties rely on.

Human Relationships

HR stands for Human Relationships at TWF. We develop people, not just deploy them. That is why the same faces come back to your property, and why clients sign off on our shifts in writing.

By The Numbers

Performance That Speaks

90min
Emergency deployment for contracted clients within 45 minutes of Greenville, NC
22
Written client approvals, zero rejected
25%
Ready in Reserve, never billed
3-Star
Captain Rating System

Our Leadership Team

Daryan Wilkinson, CEO
Daryan Wilkinson
Chief Executive Officer

Founded TWF to build something the hospitality staffing industry does not have: a system that develops people instead of discarding them. Designed the operating philosophy, Captain School, and every standard in this company.

Firm leadership

George Harrington
George Harrington
Chief Business and Strategy Officer

Career sales and business development executive who started a commercial staffing unit from a clean sheet and has sold workforce software into multi-unit restaurant groups. Chairs TWF's weekly revenue and business development meeting and carries the DMV and Northern Virginia hospitality territory.

James "Matt" Lewis, Esq.
James "Matt" Lewis, Esq.
Chief Legal Officer, Senior Counsel and Government Contracting Division Co-Lead

A Greenville native whose family owned five restaurants downtown. Brings hospitality instincts and legal precision to every contract, compliance framework, and client relationship TWF builds.

Briana Beatty
Briana Beatty
Chief Human Resources Officer, HR Advisory & PHES

Leads people strategy across the firm: recruiting, onboarding, and the employee-relations systems behind every person on the TWF roster. When a team member raises a concern, it comes to her.

Regional leadership

Yaminah Murphy
Director of Hospitality Operations, Greenville

The operational backbone. Owns uniform accountability, on-site quality checks, captain performance reviews, and standards enforcement. She protects the brand at every deployment.

Kristi Randolph
Kristi Randolph
Account Executive (GA Market)

Covers metro Atlanta for TWF's hospitality staffing division: Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, Gwinnett and Clayton counties.

In the news: BambooHR News featured CHRO Briana Beatty in “HR’s Best Chance to Shape a Decision Comes Before There’s a Policy to Defend” (August 31, 2026).

Hospitality Consultants

Senior hospitality operators who advise TWF, listed by the region each one covers.

North Carolina

Michael Gilligan
Hospitality Consultant, North Carolina

Anchored in Hendersonville, Asheville, Charlotte and Greenville.

  • Owner of a downtown hotel in Hendersonville since 2017, with more than 25 years across restaurants, hotels, resorts and cruise-line food and beverage.
  • Directed menu and recipe development across a 24-ship cruise fleet.
  • Opened a 408-room luxury hotel in Miami Beach as executive chef, leading a culinary team of 75.

Southeast and National

Marty McDaniel, CHA
Hospitality Consultant, Southeast and National

Advises TWF on market selection, standards and captain coaching across the Southeast and in markets nationwide.

  • Certified Hotel Administrator and second-generation hotelier with 38 years of operating and ownership-side leadership.
  • Regional oversight of up to 16 hotels in six states, leading teams of more than 650.
  • Directed more than $80 million in hotel and resort renovation and capital projects.

The TWF Difference

Not a Temp Agency

We do not send random people to fill slots. We build trained teams, deploy them with leadership, and manage performance continuously.

HR-Backed Operations

Every process, from onboarding to performance reviews, is built on real HR infrastructure. Background checks, W-2 employment, compliance frameworks, and structured development.

On-Site Captains

Our Captain School graduates lead every major deployment. They manage the lineup, brief the team, run the floor, and own the outcome.

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