Operating Partners
Veep matches founder-led companies with vetted senior operators who step into urgent priorities and high-stakes decisions across finance, operations, growth, product, people, fundraising, and strategy.
Veep helps founder-led and growing businesses move critical work forward with vetted senior operators who take ownership across finance, go-to-market, operations, product, people, fundraising, and strategy. Get experienced leadership without waiting for a permanent executive hire, relying on recommendations alone, or making a long-term commitment before the work and fit are clear.
Flexible senior operating support helps businesses own urgent priorities without immediately committing to permanent executive hires.
Veep matches founder-led companies with vetted senior operators who step into urgent priorities and high-stakes decisions across finance, operations, growth, product, people, fundraising, and strategy.
Choose advisory, project-based, or ongoing support scoped to the initiative. Operators take responsibility for execution while engagements can pause, extend, or scale as the work evolves.
Add experienced operating capacity for companies facing growing complexity, without immediately making a permanent C-suite hire or leaving critical work with an already stretched founder.
Veep gives small and growing businesses access to vetted senior operators who own outcomes, not just recommendations. Matched to the company’s priorities and context, operators can lead work across finance, go-to-market, operations, product, people, fundraising, and strategy. Flexible engagement scopes provide practical capacity while preserving the option to transition cleanly to a permanent hire or internal owner.
Veep combines senior judgment, hands-on ownership, and flexible access to operating expertise.
Work with former founders, CEOs, GMs, C-suite leaders, and senior functional experts.
Veep matches operators to the work, urgency, company stage, function, industry, and business context.
Operators step into the work and own outcomes instead of delivering recommendations from the sidelines.
The 30-day fit guarantee reduces engagement risk and supports operator replacement or a full exit.
Experienced builders helping companies move important 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 small business consultant helps leaders address specific business priorities through expertise, analysis, planning, and execution support. Veep’s model goes beyond recommendations by matching companies with senior operators who take ownership of work across finance, go-to-market, operations, product, people, fundraising, and strategy. The engagement can be advisory, project-based, or ongoing, depending on the initiative.
Talk with Veep about the priority that needs experienced ownership.
Veep connects businesses with experienced operators working remotely across its supported service areas.
North America
Service Area
Europe
Additional Coverage
Invite-Only
Network Model
Tell Veep about your business and the work requiring senior ownership.
Access to a curated network of vetted senior operators.
Engagement protection through operator replacement or exit options.
Operator selection based on business context and initiative needs.
Share your priorities, context, and desired engagement so Veep can explore the right match.
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