Operating Partners
Vetted senior operators step into urgent priorities across finance, go-to-market, operations, product, people, fundraising, and strategy, owning outcomes rather than offering recommendations alone.
Give your business experienced executive ownership without waiting for a permanent hire. Veep matches founder-led, owner-led, investor-backed, and portfolio companies with vetted senior operators who take responsibility for urgent priorities across strategy, operations, finance, go-to-market, people, product, and fundraising. Flexible engagements help businesses move critical work forward while founders and CEOs regain focus.
Flexible senior operating support helps businesses own urgent priorities, execute critical initiatives, and bridge the gap before permanent hiring.
Vetted senior operators step into urgent priorities across finance, go-to-market, operations, product, people, fundraising, and strategy, owning outcomes rather than offering recommendations alone.
Choose advisory, project-based, or ongoing support scoped to the work. Engagements can adapt as priorities change without requiring a long-term executive commitment.
Access managed operating capacity for companies with real revenue and growing complexity, including matched senior leadership that can move critical work forward quickly.
Veep connects businesses with vetted senior operators who take ownership of high-impact work across strategy, operations, finance, go-to-market, product, people, fundraising, and technology. Instead of leaving recommendations with your team, operators embed in the work, make decisions, and deliver measurable outcomes. Flexible scopes support advisory, project, ongoing, pod, or operator-in-the-loop engagements, with a 30-day fit guarantee.
Veep gives businesses senior ownership when critical work cannot wait.
Work with former founders, CEOs, GMs, C-suite executives, SVP leaders, and functional experts.
Receive an operator selected for your priority, urgency, company stage, function, industry, and business context.
Operators step into the work, make decisions, and own outcomes instead of leaving recommendations behind.
Scale, pause, or extend support around the work without immediately making a permanent executive commitment.
Experienced builders helping companies 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.
A fractional COO provides senior operational leadership without becoming a permanent full-time hire. They may clarify ownership, improve operating rhythms, lead cross-functional initiatives, manage execution, and resolve urgent operational priorities. Veep’s operators work hands-on across operations and related functions, taking responsibility for outcomes and leaving documentation, context, and continuity when the engagement ends or a permanent leader arrives.
Talk with Veep about the priority, context, and operating capacity your business needs.
Invite-only network of experienced senior operating leaders
Operator replacement or walk-away option supports engagement fit
Matching considers work, urgency, stage, function, industry, and fit
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