We are a multidisciplinary team who believes in great ambition and effort, without ego.
Our Team
Founded by serial entrepreneurs at the forefront of building venture-scale businesses, Juxtapose is made up of a team of leading user researchers, recruiters, analysts, authors, designers and a network of advisors that come from a wide range of fields—all of whom are dedicated to the principle of choosing to do few things and doing them well.
Alison Medland
Concept Development, User Research & Design
Alison Medland
Concept Development, User Research & Design
Alison co-leads User Research & Design within Concept Development. She supports Juxtapose’s ventures in brand, product, and UX design, from inception through full lifecycle, as well as ongoing talent, design, and consumer insight efforts across the portfolio. Alison brings over a decade of experience in human-centered design and innovation across a range of industries—from education and fin-tech, to food and healthcare. Prior to Juxtapose, she led multi-disciplinary teams across product, service, and experience design at IDEO. She established the UX/UI discipline at beauty-tech startup, Prose, and spent many years on the agency side producing award-winning creative work for clients like Samsung, AOL, and Discovery Channel. She has a BFA in Visual Communication from the University of Delaware.
Andy Stein
Concept Development, Commercial Diligence
Andy Stein
Concept Development, Commercial Diligence
Andy co-leads Commercial Concept Development at the research phase and supports our ventures from inception through their full life cycle. Andy works closely with the user research and product leadership at Juxtapose, as well as with the firm’s portfolio capital markets efforts. Prior to Juxtapose, Andy founded a direct primary care business and was previously a private equity and hedge fund investor, first at Hellman & Friedman and later helping to start Thorntree Capital, a consumer- and internet-focused hedge fund where he led consumer and retail and international investing. Andy began his career at Bain & Company and is a graduate of Harvard College.
Ben West
Concept Development, Commercial Diligence
Ben West
Concept Development, Commercial Diligence
Ben co-leads Commercial Concept Development at the research phase and supports our ventures from inception through full lifecycle. Ben works closely with the user research and product leadership at Juxtapose, as well as with the firm’s portfolio capital markets efforts. Prior to Juxtapose, Ben had a decade of experience in venture capital and company creation, including the creation efforts to launch Strive Health at Oxeon Ventures and Hims at Atomic Labs, after gaining foundational experience at Accretive. Ben started his career at Boston Consulting Group. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he graduated with Distinction, and a BA from the University of Oklahoma, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude.
Cleo
Canine in Charge
Dev Aujla
Special Projects
Dev Aujla
Special Projects
Dev leads special projects at Juxtapose, focused both on internal development as well as external and talent facing projects. He has extensive experience in the recruitment and personal development space. Prior to Juxtapose, he led a boutique executive search firm, Catalog LLC. Dev is the author of two books including 50 Ways to Get a Job which was a national bestseller. His writing and work have been featured in numerous media outlets including the NY Times, CNN, Time Magazine and Fast Company. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and was awarded the Queens Jubilee Medal for Community Service for his work helping young people in Canada.
Jed Cairo
Founding Partner
Jed Cairo
Founding Partner
Jed is a co-founder and managing partner at Juxtapose. At the firm, Jed helps to manage the team across strategies and works closely with the firm’s leaders across the business, including concept development and talent identification. Jed also participates meaningfully with the portfolio and its CEOs, including involvement at the board level. Prior to founding Juxtapose, Jed worked closely with early stage businesses as an angel investor and serial entrepreneur. He also spent time as a private equity investor at KKR and helped to lead a public market hedge fund, BeaconLight Capital. Jed has a BA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and as a Joseph Wharton Scholar, and has an MBA from The Wharton School, where he was a submatriculant and Palmer Scholar.
Kevin Winstead
Executive Administration & Operations
Kevin Winstead
Executive Administration & Operations
Kevin leads office operations and supports the managing partners at Juxtapose. He brings more than twenty years of operational and administrative experience, most recently as assistant to the founding partners at Kobre & Kim, a global law firm focused on investigations and disputes. Kevin spent the beginning of his career as a paralegal at several law firms and holds a BA in English Language and Literature from University of California, Los Angeles.
Lindsay Gates
Talent
Lindsay Gates
Talent
Lindsay leads Talent at Juxtapose, focusing on the recruitment of CEOs and senior founding and executive teams for our ventures. Prior to Juxtapose, Lindsay was a Principal at Rich Talent Group, a boutique executive search firm in San Francisco, where she led executive searches for growth-stage digital consumer businesses. Lindsay studied at Bowdoin College and earned her MBA at UVA’s Darden School of Business.
Michael Cline
Executive Chairman
Michael Cline
Executive Chairman
Michael is the Executive Chairman of Juxtapose. He works closely with the managing partners to guide firm strategy, and is heavily involved in concept development and portfolio management. Michael is also the Founding and Managing partner of Accretive, where he has founded and invested in a number of companies including Fandango, R1 RCM, Accolade, Insureon, Everspring and Accumen, among others. Before founding Accretive, Michael was a General Partner at General Atlantic. He received his BS from Cornell University and his MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar. Michael is currently Chairman of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and serves on the Harvard Business School Rock Center for Entrepreneurship.
Patrick Chun
Founding Partner
Patrick Chun
Founding Partner
Patrick is a co-founder and managing partner at Juxtapose. At the firm, Patrick helps to manage the team across strategies and works closely with the firm’s leaders across the business, including concept development and talent identification. Patrick also participates meaningfully with the portfolio and its CEOs, including involvement at the board level. Prior to founding Juxtapose, Patrick spent a significant portion of his career building and investing businesses at the earliest stages, including senior and partner level experience at early stage and company creation-oriented firms such as Thrive Capital, Accretive, and Bain Capital Ventures. He started his career at McKinsey & Company. Patrick has a BA from Harvard College, an MA from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Rohit Dave
Portfolio Capital Markets
Rohit Dave
Portfolio Capital Markets
Rohit leads fundraising and capital strategy across Juxtapose’s portfolio. He partners closely with portfolio company founders and executive teams on growth initiatives and strategic planning. Prior to Juxtapose, Rohit was head of corporate development at WeWork where he led acquisitions and venture investments and later the divestitures and restructuring of non-core assets. Rohit has also served in corporate development roles at Twilio and Samsung and as an attorney at Proskauer. He has a JD from NYU School of Law and a BS from NYU Stern School of Business, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.
Shawn Fandel
Finance
Shawn Fandel
Finance
Shawn leads Juxtapose’s finance efforts, both internally, as an operations lead, and externally (including with our limited partners). He is both a lawyer and a certified public accountant. Prior to Juxtapose, Shawn spent time in financial and tax advisory. Most recently, he was a senior tax consultant at Deloitte, where he counseled multinational organizations on complex financial & tax compliance matters. He has a JD and an MA in Accounting from the University of Miami, and an MSM and a BS from the University of Florida.
Sloane Hastings
Concept Development, User Research & Design
Sloane Hastings
Concept Development, User Research & Design
Sloane co-leads User Research & Design within Concept Development. She supports Juxtapose’s ventures in brand, product, and UX design, as well as ongoing talent, design, and consumer insight efforts across the portfolio. Prior to Juxtapose, Sloane spent nearly a decade helping major consumer brands build relationships with consumers through human-centered products, services, and communications. After beginning her career in brand strategy, she led multi-disciplinary design teams at IDEO, with an emphasis on service design. She also led design strategy at Casper, where she worked across digital product and environments design teams. She has a BA from the University of Virginia, where she graduated with Distinction, and an MS in Communications from the VCU Brandcenter, where she was the AICP Director’s Scholarship recipient.
Zach Barrett
Operator in Residence
Zach Barrett
Operator in Residence
Zach works with the team as an Operator-in-Residence (OiR), brought in to support the development and launch of Juxtapose’s latest venture (currently in development). At launch, Zach will join the new company as a founding member of the team. Prior to Juxtapose, Zach founded a digital fitness platform and previously led finance and operations at Splash and Updater, both within the SaaS marketing space. Zach began his career at Deloitte Consulting and is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and Harvard Business School.
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