Mark Cirillo, Joe Vaught and Eric Lingenfelder are the founders and principals of Verant Group. The company was created to develop a highly successful group of bars and restaurants and has spent the past 13 years building each entity on a strong foundation of knowledge, trust, communication and a solid sense of a team environment. They are now in the process of taking the company to the next level. Mark, Joe and Eric are each involved in the day-to-day operations in every location. They have input in all the company decisions from entertainment concepts to menus. The partners perform their due diligence and research to determine where the next location will be. Collectively, they possess many years of experience as they each started out in the industry as servers, door security or dishwashers and worked their way up throughout the years gaining a well-rounded understanding of the bar, restaurant and entertainment industry.

Together we represent:

- Tavern at the Beach
- Sandbar Sports Grill
- Uptown Tavern
- barleymash
- ginger's
- True North Tavern
- West Coast Tavern