Founding CEOs are our most important partners in building world-changing businesses.
Best of
the best
When we say it, we really mean it: talent is truly everything for us. And we know that winning on the talent front starts by partnering, day one, with the best possible founding CEO.
The Juxtapose way
We build our businesses in partnership with seasoned entrepreneurial operators who individually bring decades of product-, team- and company-building leadership to the table.
We bring intense rigor - typically a seventy-plus step relationship-building, talent evaluation and selection process - to determine the right founding CEO to build a business. Sometimes that takes years, and that’s fine with us.
We recognize that building a business is hard, and the decision to start on a journey together is an important one. Ensuring there is true, deep alignment on company vision and outcomes is something we take very seriously.
We partnered with Dr. Ken Chahine and Obvious Ventures to co-build a comprehensive, vertically integrated allergy healthcare platform to help rid the world of allergies. Nectar leverages data and clinical research to offer a personalized, patient-centric approach to allergy care. Dr. Chahine was formerly the founder of AncestryDNA and EVP of Ancestry.com, a product that has been used by nearly 10% of the U.S. population. He is one of the country’s leading entrepreneurial operators at the intersection of science and healthcare.
"Allergies are the leading chronic disease in the US, bigger than hypertension, mood disorders and diabetes, yet allergy care suffers from one of the lowest NPS in healthcare. Nectar is a world-changing opportunity to reinvent allergy care from the ground up."
Experienced entrepreneurial operators
Juxtapose founding CEOs are proven builders and leaders with an evidenced track record that spans multiple decades.
Our CEO archetype
Has led from the front several times in their career, building and leading teams with thousands of employees and billions of dollars in revenue.
Knows what good looks like, understands the value of building process to find the best, and has a track record of attracting and retaining top talent.
Has a proven track record of functional spikes and cross-company experience, and can unlock value in an important function unique to the opportunity at hand.
Aaron
Shapiro
We partnered with Aaron to found a new kind of life insurance company, one built from scratch to simplify the process of providing families financial security. Dayforward offers a first in kind innovative life insurance solution that guarantees a policyholder's family the continuation of salary income in the event that the policyholder passes away. Today, Dayforward has launched the first new life insurance product that the industry has seen in over ten years, and has become a full-fledged national insurance carrier. Aaron is a serial entrepreneur, previously having founded and led Huge - a 1,500-person global digital agency (that sold to IPG) - as well as Silverpop, a marketing technology company (that sold to IBM).
"Life insurance is a $150B industry that has not changed in decades. Literally. It is also critically important for a family’s financial security - 1 of 17 children in America will experience the loss of a parent. We need to do better."
Partners from day one
At Juxtapose, we don’t do a lot. So for the things we decide to do, we go deep, and once committed, we are in it until the end. Our business model is to be a true partner to our CEOs and their founding teams in every sense of the word.
True partnership
By the time we partner with a CEO, we’ve often spent years developing intellectual property and building conviction in an opportunity space. We bring that knowledge, experience and accumulated advantage to bear for every business we build.
In addition to the depth of capital that comes from our own creation-focused investment fund, we develop a capital development plan that ensures our CEO can grow the business and bring the best value-added partners in during the process.
We do few things, and aim to do those few things very well. We have real skin in the game in the few things we do. When we partner with a CEO, our entire team and ecosystem is brought to bear to ensure the business has the best possible path to success.
Stoyan Kenderov
We partnered with Stoyan to create a new financial system of record for dental offices based on the insight that inefficiencies in billing and claims result in significant missed collections for dentists each year. Wisdom relies on a combination of technology and expert services to reinvent the insurance relationship and modernize the revenue cycle. Stoyan’s 25 years of experience in the financial operations space, with executive roles at companies like Plastiq and LendingClub, brings a unique perspective on how to make the financial process work better for everyone involved, from patients to practices to payors. Stoyan’s vision for Wisdom doesn’t stop at the financial process, but aims to be the fully automated back office suite for practices over time.
Kristen Helton
We partnered with Kristen to build an Advanced Primary Care platform focused on transforming the health and wellness paradigm for women 65+. We found that many women don't feel understood in the clinical setting, where their needs are overlooked, misunderstood and misdiagnosed. Kristen's experience in healthcare provided the best vantage point from which to build an omnichannel experience for them from the ground up, leveraging technology to deliver care in a value-based context. Kristen was previously the founding leader of Amazon Care, building a business serving hundreds of thousands of patient, and prior to that co-founded Profusa. Kristen is a trained scientist, having received a PhD in bioengineering.
John Clendening
We partnered with John Clendening with the vision of radically changing the way financial advice and wealth management is offered to Americans in order to accelerate wealth creation: serving them exclusively based on their unique career verticals, starting with physicians. Earned will be the world’s first technology-centric, verticalized financial advisory firm. John spent over a decade as one of the senior most executives at Charles Schwab, running Charles Schwab bank, and was also the CEO of Blucora, a publicly traded financial technology company. John has significant experience as a public and private company board member, including service with Silicon Valley Bank and Betterment.
founding ceos
Meet our
Founding CEOs
John Post
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John Clendening
Kristen Helton
Jay Goldklang
Craig Elbert
Court Cunningham
Ken Chahine
Shawn Weidmann
Rob Solomon
Melissa Eamer
Doug Hudson
Aaron Shapiro
Stoyan Kenderov
Chris Johnson
Lexi Reese
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