Operating Partners
Vetted senior operators step into urgent priorities and high-stakes decisions across finance, GTM, operations, product, people, fundraising, and strategy.
Design a clearer operating model for growing companies with senior operators who turn priorities into accountable execution. Veep helps founders and leadership teams clarify ownership, strengthen workflows, and move critical finance, go-to-market, operations, product, people, fundraising, and strategy work forward without waiting for a permanent executive hire.
Flexible operating support helps companies clarify ownership and execute urgent priorities across core business functions.
Vetted senior operators step into urgent priorities and high-stakes decisions across finance, GTM, operations, product, people, fundraising, and strategy.
Choose advisory, project-based, or ongoing support scoped to the initiative, with hands-on ownership instead of recommendations left for your team to execute.
Access matched senior operating capacity without immediately committing to a permanent executive hire, while preserving flexibility, context, and continuity.
Veep helps leadership teams design and strengthen how work gets owned, coordinated, and completed. Matched senior operators bring experience from founding, scaling, and leading companies, then embed directly in the work rather than advising from the sidelines. Engagements can support finance, GTM, operations, product, people, fundraising, or strategy while giving founders greater focus and a clean handoff when priorities are complete.
Veep combines senior operating judgment with a managed model built around the work.
Work with former founders, CEOs, GMs, C-suite leaders, and functional experts who have operated in complex environments.
A managed matching process considers the priority, urgency, company stage, function, industry, business model, and working fit.
Operators step into the work and own outcomes, helping founders move critical priorities forward instead of receiving recommendations alone.
Scope support to the initiative, pause or extend engagements, and reduce hiring risk through the 30-day fit guarantee.
Experienced builders helping founders move faster with greater operating focus.
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.
An operating model defines how a consulting firm organizes people, responsibilities, decisions, workflows, and resources to deliver its work. It connects strategy with execution by clarifying who owns priorities, how teams collaborate, and how work moves from decision to outcome. Veep helps companies strengthen these mechanisms through embedded senior operators who bring hands-on experience rather than recommendations alone.
Talk with Veep about the priority, ownership gap, or operating challenge ahead.
Access to a curated network of vetted senior operators
Former founders and executives bring hands-on operating judgment
Swap the operator or walk away without a penalty
Share your operating priority and learn how Veep can match the right senior capacity.
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