Jon is an executive recruiter at Talentfoot and a trusted advisor to PE/VC-backed, growth-stage, and enterprise organizations seeking exceptional commercial and go-to-market leadership. He partners with CEOs, CROs, CMOs, CTOs, and private equity operating partners to hire transformative executives across roles including VP of Sales, Chief Revenue Officer, VP of Marketing, CMO, and senior technology leaders spanning AI, Data and Analytics, Software Engineering, and Product.
With 5+ years of retained executive search delivery and 20+ years as an operator and commercial leader, Jon brings a rare combination of firsthand founder experience and disciplined search execution. He has completed searches for leading PE/VC funds including Graham Partners, KKR, LightSpeed Ventures, Platinum Equity, Sapphire Ventures, Tiger Global, TPG and Warburg Pincus. Jon has placed executives at companies across enterprise software, healthcare, financial services, consumer, and SaaS. His clients are typically scaling businesses with revenues between $30M and $500M+, often post product-market fit, newly VC/PE-backed, or operating within a defined window toward a liquidity event.
What sets Jon apart is his operator’s lens. He founded and led a venture-backed B2B SaaS company that raised $13M in institutional capital, scaled the business, and achieved a successful exit to a Silicon Valley acquirer. That firsthand experience building a leadership team, managing a board, and driving a company through exit gives him a practical, grounded perspective that most search professionals simply don’t have. He understands what great leadership looks like not just on paper, but in execution.
Jon’s search expertise centers on the intersection of AI, data platforms, and enterprise software: areas where leadership decisions have a direct and measurable impact on revenue, performance, and exit outcomes. He is known for his structured approach to role calibration, market mapping, candidate assessment, and offer strategy, consistently closing searches within 90 days by frontloading alignment with founders, boards, and PE/VC operating partners.
His functional coverage spans Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Customer Success, Revenue Operations, Demand Generation, Digital Commerce, AI and Machine Learning, Data and Analytics, Software Engineering across all tech stacks, Product Management, and Technology Leadership.
Jon holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana University and is married with three children.