Operating Partners
Vetted senior operators step into urgent priorities across strategy, finance, operations, GTM, product, people, and fundraising, taking ownership of outcomes rather than offering recommendations alone.
Build clarity, ownership, and momentum around your company’s most important priorities. This guide explains how strategic planning consulting can help founders and executive teams move from unresolved initiatives to focused execution, with senior operators supporting finance, go-to-market, operations, product, people, fundraising, and strategy. Explore flexible engagement models designed around the work—not a permanent hiring commitment.
Flexible senior operating support helps companies turn strategic priorities into owned initiatives, decisions, and measurable progress.
Vetted senior operators step into urgent priorities across strategy, finance, operations, GTM, product, people, and fundraising, taking ownership of outcomes rather than offering recommendations alone.
Choose advisory, project-based, or ongoing support scoped to the initiative. Engagements can pause, extend, or scale as business priorities and operating needs change.
Add experienced leadership capacity without immediately committing to a permanent executive hire. Matched operators help founder-led and growing companies move critical work forward.
Strategic planning creates value when priorities have clear owners and consistent follow-through. Veep matches companies with vetted senior operators who can take responsibility for high-impact work across strategy and connected functions. Engagements are scoped to the initiative, helping founders and CEOs gain practical support, stronger execution, and continuity without immediately making a permanent executive commitment.
Veep combines senior operating judgment with flexible, managed support built around the work.
Work with former founders, CEOs, GMs, C-suite leaders, and functional experts.
Operators step into the work, bringing judgment, execution, and accountability—not recommendations from the sidelines.
Veep matches operators to the priority, urgency, company stage, function, industry, and business context.
A 30-day fit guarantee helps reduce engagement risk and supports an operator replacement or exit option.
Experienced company builders helping founders move critical work forward.
Co-Founder
Dave Garcia is a Co-Founder of Veep, bringing decades of experience building and scaling products inside high-growth startups. Throughout his career, Dave has launched products from the ground up, led critical organizational pivots, and guided companies through successful exits. His deep understanding of what it takes to move fast without sacrificing quality shapes Veep's approach to matching companies with senior operators who can immediately own outcomes. At Veep, Dave focuses on helping founders and CEOs offload urgent, high-impact work so they can concentrate on strategic priorities. He is passionate about giving founders access to the same caliber of operating talent that only the largest companies typically enjoy, ensuring critical work never sits idle waiting for a permanent hire.
Co-Founder
Jian Yang is a Co-Founder of Veep with an extensive background in raising capital, scaling companies, and leading organizations through successful exits. His experience spans multiple high-growth environments where he directly navigated the operational and financial challenges that founders face daily. Jian co-founded Veep to give other founders and executives access to senior-level operating expertise without the delays and risks of traditional hiring processes. He is dedicated to helping companies move critical initiatives forward with the same rigor and judgment he applied while building and scaling his own ventures. At Veep, Jian focuses on ensuring clients receive matched operators who bring both strategic insight and hands-on execution, helping founder-led and investor-backed companies grow smarter and faster.
Co-Founder
Mark Newhouse is a Co-Founder of Veep, known for building brands, transforming organizations, and successfully selling startups over the course of his career. His broad experience across company stages and industries gives him a unique perspective on the operational gaps that emerge as businesses scale. Mark co-founded Veep to address a recurring problem he witnessed firsthand: critical work without clear ownership, left to founders and CEOs already stretched thin. He is committed to building alongside founders, providing them with vetted senior operators who step in immediately and take ownership of high-impact priorities. At Veep, Mark emphasizes clean handoffs and guaranteed fit, ensuring that every engagement delivers real results and lasting continuity for the businesses Veep serves.
Business strategic planning consulting helps leaders clarify priorities, evaluate important decisions, and create an actionable path toward company goals. Effective support goes beyond producing a plan: it establishes ownership, supports execution, and helps teams address connected work across strategy, operations, finance, go-to-market, product, people, or fundraising. Veep provides senior operators who can take responsibility for that work.
Talk with Veep about the priority that needs experienced ownership.
Senior operating talent selected for experience and fit
Structured matching based on work and business context
Engagement protection with replacement or exit option
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