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Renata is a co-founder of Renegade Partners. With more than 15 years in venture, she has partnered with founders building essential software for "markets that matter." Important verticals and enterprise workflows where technology becomes critical infrastructure, not tech for tech's sake. Her recent investments include Air Space Intelligence (AI for critical decision-making in aviation and defense), Overmind (simulation platform for risk analysis of code deployment), Copia Automation (industrial code lifecycle management), Flock Homes (reinventing private real estate ownership), and an unannounced company bringing conversational AI to the enterprise.
Prior to Renegade, Renata was on the ground floor building Felicis Ventures, where she was a General Partner, and later was a Partner at Lux Capital. She began her career helping manage Stanford University's endowment. Her early-stage investments include Dollar Shave Club (acquired by Unilever), Warby Parker (NYSE: WRBY), Planet (NYSE: PL), and Cruise Automation (acquired by GM).
Renata is an alumna of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) Board and a Founding Member of All Raise. She holds an MBA and LL.M in Law, Science, and Technology from Stanford, and a JD from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. She's also a three-time state karate champion, jazz guitar player, tennis obsessive, and Brazilian immigrant.
As Renegade Partners’ Chief People Officer and Operating Partner, Susan works directly with portfolio companies to help them build people organizations capable of scaling. Prior to joining Renegade as the first Operating Partner in 2020, Susan was VP of People at Zume, where she helped grow the company from ~30 employees to over 500. She previously led operations, marketing, sales, and account management in the Bay Area as General Manager at Uber, where she also launched the company’s delivery businesses, UberEATS and UberRUSH. She built the team from zero to ~50, and GMV from $0 at launch to $100M+ in just two years. Prior to Uber, Susan did business development, SMB sales, and operations at Milo, a startup acquired by eBay, where she served as a Senior Product Manager.
Susan started her career at McKinsey & Company, consulting for healthcare and consumer products businesses, with a focus on M&A and growth. After McKinsey, Susan joined CHB Capital Partners, a middle-market private equity firm, where she spent three years investing and supporting CHB’s portfolio companies. Susan has a degree in Economics from Duke University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. She lives in Boulder with her family and loves to hike and downhill ski as much as possible.
Jack brings over 20 years of experience as CFO in VC/PE to Renegade. His career in venture capital began as CFO of Ignition Partners, a firm investing in early-stage high technology and B2B software companies. He also managed the financial operations for their China based affiliate, Qiming Partners. After eight years with Ignition, Jack joined Columbia Pacific Advisors where he was CFO & Partner. He was integral in building a best-in-class team and financial infrastructure that enabled high growth during his tenure.
Jack’s career also includes six years as VP Tax & Treasury for InfoSpace, Inc. where he was responsible for worldwide taxation and gained experience in M&A, international expansion, and stock compensation matters. Prior to that, Jack was a tax professional at Deloitte, and he holds an M.S. Taxation degree from Golden Gate University and a B.A. Accounting degree from the University of Washington.
Jack lives in Seattle and enjoys tennis, travel, guitar, and boating in the San Juan Islands.
Love is an Executive Assistant at Renegade Partners, where they build on over a decade of administrative support experience. With a previous Administrative Services Manager role leading a team of talented executive assistants, and an extensive background working in finance and technology, Love particularly enjoys providing support to Renegade’s portfolio founders and operators. Love graduated with highest honors from UC Santa Barbara with a degree in Global Studies and a double-minor in Professional Writing and Poverty, Inequality and Social Justice.
In addition to performing administrative work for Renegade, Love runs Lovely Life Coaching and Hypnotherapy, a coaching and hypnotherapy business that strives to provide support to those seeking personal and professional growth, with an additional focus on marginalized communities and individuals experiencing re-entry challenges following incarceration. A three-time graduation speaker, one of Love’s greatest passions is public speaking. Love enjoys traveling, playing the drums, and writing teen fiction in their free time. Love is an internationally published fiction novelist.
Jess is an Executive Assistant at Renegade Partners, where she brings a background in strategic operations and executive support across high-growth companies. She has partnered closely with senior leaders in fast-paced environments, helping teams stay focused, organized, and moving forward during periods of change and scale.
Prior to joining Renegade, Jess supported leaders across corporate, venture-backed, and later-stage technology companies, working cross-functionally with product, marketing, sales, and legal teams. She thrives partnering with executives and operators by helping teams build the infrastructure needed to grow and scale.
Jess earned her MBA with a concentration in Operations and is based in Half Moon Bay. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling with her husband, indulging her inner foodie, and is completely obsessed with her dog. When she’s not at work or at the beach with her dog, she’s likely lifting weights at the gym, developing in the sport of bodybuilding, or burying her head in a murder mystery book.
Roseanne is a venture capitalist, early-stage startup founder and operator, scientist, and co-founder of Renegade Partners. With more than a decade in venture, she has gravitated toward pioneering founders tackling big, bold problems or taking on the status quo, with particular expertise in AI & ML, Fintech, Vertical SaaS, Infrastructure, and Consumer Technology. Her recent investments include AI evals platform Freeplay, gaming merchant-of-record Neon, conversational AI company Daily, and real-time incident response solution Rootly.
Annie loves to dive deep into decision making under uncertainty. Her latest obsession is on the topic of quitting. In particular, she is on a mission to rehabilitate the term and get people to be proud of walking away from things.
Annie is an author, speaker, and consultant in the decision-making space, as well as Special Partner focused on Decision Science at First Round Capital Partners, a seed stage venture fund.
Annie is the author of two bestsellers, Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, and Thinking in Bets, both released by Portfolio, a Penguin Random House imprint. As a former professional poker player, she has won more than $4 million in tournament poker. During her career, Annie won a World Series of Poker bracelet and is the only woman to have won the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions and the NBC National Poker Heads-Up Championship. She retired from the game in 2012. Prior to becoming a professional poker player, Annie was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship to study Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned her master’s degree. From 2021 to 2025, she returned to her alma mater as a Visiting Scholar, where she also taught executive education. In 2023 Annie completed her PhD in Cognitive Psychology.
Annie is the co-founder of The Alliance for Decision Education, a non-profit whose mission is to improve lives by empowering students through decision skills education. She is a member of the National Board of After-School All-Stars.
Barkha Gvalani is a senior product, data, and AI leader and the founder of BitGeese, where she helps venture and growth investors modernize sourcing, diligence, and portfolio workflows with AI, automation, and data systems.
She brings 10+ years of experience building AI/ML-powered products and decision infrastructure, translating ambiguity into clear strategy, scalable operating models, and measurable outcomes.
Courtney is an Executive Assistant at Renegade Partners, where she brings over a decade of experience supporting senior leaders across finance, technology, and early-stage startups with a background that spans both corporate and high-growth environments.
Prior to joining Renegade, Courtney spent several years partnering with C-level executives and co-founders through periods of rapid growth, product expansion, and organizational change. She especially enjoys working alongside founders and operators as they navigate the challenges of building and scaling.
Courtney studied at the University of Washington and is based in San Francisco. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling, discovering new music, and spending time with her rescue dog. She is passionate about animal welfare and has a lifelong soft spot for rescue animals.
Renata is a co-founder of Renegade Partners. With more than 15 years in venture, she has partnered with founders building essential software for "markets that matter." Important verticals and enterprise workflows where technology becomes critical infrastructure, not tech for tech's sake. Her recent investments include Air Space Intelligence (AI for critical decision-making in aviation and defense), Overmind (simulation platform for risk analysis of code deployment), Copia Automation (industrial code lifecycle management), Flock Homes (reinventing private real estate ownership), and an unannounced company bringing conversational AI to the enterprise.
Prior to Renegade, Renata was on the ground floor building Felicis Ventures, where she was a General Partner, and later was a Partner at Lux Capital. She began her career helping manage Stanford University's endowment. Her early-stage investments include Dollar Shave Club (acquired by Unilever), Warby Parker (NYSE: WRBY), Planet (NYSE: PL), and Cruise Automation (acquired by GM).
Renata is an alumna of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) Board and a Founding Member of All Raise. She holds an MBA and LL.M in Law, Science, and Technology from Stanford, and a JD from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. She's also a three-time state karate champion, jazz guitar player, tennis obsessive, and Brazilian immigrant.
Roseanne is a venture capitalist, early-stage startup founder and operator, scientist, and co-founder of Renegade Partners. With more than a decade in venture, she has gravitated toward pioneering founders tackling big, bold problems or taking on the status quo, with particular expertise in AI & ML, Fintech, Vertical SaaS, Infrastructure, and Consumer Technology. Her recent investments include AI evals platform Freeplay, gaming merchant-of-record Neon, conversational AI company Daily, and real-time incident response solution Rootly.
As Renegade Partners’ Chief People Officer and Operating Partner, Susan works directly with portfolio companies to help them build people organizations capable of scaling. Prior to joining Renegade as the first Operating Partner in 2020, Susan was VP of People at Zume, where she helped grow the company from ~30 employees to over 500. She previously led operations, marketing, sales, and account management in the Bay Area as General Manager at Uber, where she also launched the company’s delivery businesses, UberEATS and UberRUSH. She built the team from zero to ~50, and GMV from $0 at launch to $100M+ in just two years. Prior to Uber, Susan did business development, SMB sales, and operations at Milo, a startup acquired by eBay, where she served as a Senior Product Manager.
Susan started her career at McKinsey & Company, consulting for healthcare and consumer products businesses, with a focus on M&A and growth. After McKinsey, Susan joined CHB Capital Partners, a middle-market private equity firm, where she spent three years investing and supporting CHB’s portfolio companies. Susan has a degree in Economics from Duke University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. She lives in Boulder with her family and loves to hike and downhill ski as much as possible.
Annie loves to dive deep into decision making under uncertainty. Her latest obsession is on the topic of quitting. In particular, she is on a mission to rehabilitate the term and get people to be proud of walking away from things.
Annie is an author, speaker, and consultant in the decision-making space, as well as Special Partner focused on Decision Science at First Round Capital Partners, a seed stage venture fund.
Annie is the author of two bestsellers, Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, and Thinking in Bets, both released by Portfolio, a Penguin Random House imprint. As a former professional poker player, she has won more than $4 million in tournament poker. During her career, Annie won a World Series of Poker bracelet and is the only woman to have won the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions and the NBC National Poker Heads-Up Championship. She retired from the game in 2012. Prior to becoming a professional poker player, Annie was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship to study Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned her master’s degree. From 2021 to 2025, she returned to her alma mater as a Visiting Scholar, where she also taught executive education. In 2023 Annie completed her PhD in Cognitive Psychology.
Annie is the co-founder of The Alliance for Decision Education, a non-profit whose mission is to improve lives by empowering students through decision skills education. She is a member of the National Board of After-School All-Stars.
Barkha Gvalani is a senior product, data, and AI leader and the founder of BitGeese, where she helps venture and growth investors modernize sourcing, diligence, and portfolio workflows with AI, automation, and data systems.
She brings 10+ years of experience building AI/ML-powered products and decision infrastructure, translating ambiguity into clear strategy, scalable operating models, and measurable outcomes.
Jack brings over 20 years of experience as CFO in VC/PE to Renegade. His career in venture capital began as CFO of Ignition Partners, a firm investing in early-stage high technology and B2B software companies. He also managed the financial operations for their China based affiliate, Qiming Partners. After eight years with Ignition, Jack joined Columbia Pacific Advisors where he was CFO & Partner. He was integral in building a best-in-class team and financial infrastructure that enabled high growth during his tenure.
Jack’s career also includes six years as VP Tax & Treasury for InfoSpace, Inc. where he was responsible for worldwide taxation and gained experience in M&A, international expansion, and stock compensation matters. Prior to that, Jack was a tax professional at Deloitte, and he holds an M.S. Taxation degree from Golden Gate University and a B.A. Accounting degree from the University of Washington.
Jack lives in Seattle and enjoys tennis, travel, guitar, and boating in the San Juan Islands.
Love is an Executive Assistant at Renegade Partners, where they build on over a decade of administrative support experience. With a previous Administrative Services Manager role leading a team of talented executive assistants, and an extensive background working in finance and technology, Love particularly enjoys providing support to Renegade’s portfolio founders and operators. Love graduated with highest honors from UC Santa Barbara with a degree in Global Studies and a double-minor in Professional Writing and Poverty, Inequality and Social Justice.
In addition to performing administrative work for Renegade, Love runs Lovely Life Coaching and Hypnotherapy, a coaching and hypnotherapy business that strives to provide support to those seeking personal and professional growth, with an additional focus on marginalized communities and individuals experiencing re-entry challenges following incarceration. A three-time graduation speaker, one of Love’s greatest passions is public speaking. Love enjoys traveling, playing the drums, and writing teen fiction in their free time. Love is an internationally published fiction novelist.
Courtney is an Executive Assistant at Renegade Partners, where she brings over a decade of experience supporting senior leaders across finance, technology, and early-stage startups with a background that spans both corporate and high-growth environments.
Prior to joining Renegade, Courtney spent several years partnering with C-level executives and co-founders through periods of rapid growth, product expansion, and organizational change. She especially enjoys working alongside founders and operators as they navigate the challenges of building and scaling.
Courtney studied at the University of Washington and is based in San Francisco. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling, discovering new music, and spending time with her rescue dog. She is passionate about animal welfare and has a lifelong soft spot for rescue animals.
Jess is an Executive Assistant at Renegade Partners, where she brings a background in strategic operations and executive support across high-growth companies. She has partnered closely with senior leaders in fast-paced environments, helping teams stay focused, organized, and moving forward during periods of change and scale.
Prior to joining Renegade, Jess supported leaders across corporate, venture-backed, and later-stage technology companies, working cross-functionally with product, marketing, sales, and legal teams. She thrives partnering with executives and operators by helping teams build the infrastructure needed to grow and scale.
Jess earned her MBA with a concentration in Operations and is based in Half Moon Bay. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling with her husband, indulging her inner foodie, and is completely obsessed with her dog. When she’s not at work or at the beach with her dog, she’s likely lifting weights at the gym, developing in the sport of bodybuilding, or burying her head in a murder mystery book.
Renata is a co-founder of Renegade Partners. With more than 15 years in venture, she has partnered with founders building essential software for "markets that matter." Important verticals and enterprise workflows where technology becomes critical infrastructure, not tech for tech's sake. Her recent investments include Air Space Intelligence (AI for critical decision-making in aviation and defense), Overmind (simulation platform for risk analysis of code deployment), Copia Automation (industrial code lifecycle management), Flock Homes (reinventing private real estate ownership), and an unannounced company bringing conversational AI to the enterprise.
Prior to Renegade, Renata was on the ground floor building Felicis Ventures, where she was a General Partner, and later was a Partner at Lux Capital. She began her career helping manage Stanford University's endowment. Her early-stage investments include Dollar Shave Club (acquired by Unilever), Warby Parker (NYSE: WRBY), Planet (NYSE: PL), and Cruise Automation (acquired by GM).
Renata is an alumna of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) Board and a Founding Member of All Raise. She holds an MBA and LL.M in Law, Science, and Technology from Stanford, and a JD from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. She's also a three-time state karate champion, jazz guitar player, tennis obsessive, and Brazilian immigrant.
Roseanne is a venture capitalist, early-stage startup founder and operator, scientist, and co-founder of Renegade Partners. With more than a decade in venture, she has gravitated toward pioneering founders tackling big, bold problems or taking on the status quo, with particular expertise in AI & ML, Fintech, Vertical SaaS, Infrastructure, and Consumer Technology. Her recent investments include AI evals platform Freeplay, gaming merchant-of-record Neon, conversational AI company Daily, and real-time incident response solution Rootly.
Annie loves to dive deep into decision making under uncertainty. Her latest obsession is on the topic of quitting. In particular, she is on a mission to rehabilitate the term and get people to be proud of walking away from things.
Annie is an author, speaker, and consultant in the decision-making space, as well as Special Partner focused on Decision Science at First Round Capital Partners, a seed stage venture fund.
Annie is the author of two bestsellers, Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, and Thinking in Bets, both released by Portfolio, a Penguin Random House imprint. As a former professional poker player, she has won more than $4 million in tournament poker. During her career, Annie won a World Series of Poker bracelet and is the only woman to have won the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions and the NBC National Poker Heads-Up Championship. She retired from the game in 2012. Prior to becoming a professional poker player, Annie was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship to study Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned her master’s degree. From 2021 to 2025, she returned to her alma mater as a Visiting Scholar, where she also taught executive education. In 2023 Annie completed her PhD in Cognitive Psychology.
Annie is the co-founder of The Alliance for Decision Education, a non-profit whose mission is to improve lives by empowering students through decision skills education. She is a member of the National Board of After-School All-Stars.
Renata is a co-founder of Renegade Partners. With more than 15 years in venture, she has partnered with founders building essential software for "markets that matter." Important verticals and enterprise workflows where technology becomes critical infrastructure, not tech for tech's sake. Her recent investments include Air Space Intelligence (AI for critical decision-making in aviation and defense), Overmind (simulation platform for risk analysis of code deployment), Copia Automation (industrial code lifecycle management), Flock Homes (reinventing private real estate ownership), and an unannounced company bringing conversational AI to the enterprise.
Prior to Renegade, Renata was on the ground floor building Felicis Ventures, where she was a General Partner, and later was a Partner at Lux Capital. She began her career helping manage Stanford University's endowment. Her early-stage investments include Dollar Shave Club (acquired by Unilever), Warby Parker (NYSE: WRBY), Planet (NYSE: PL), and Cruise Automation (acquired by GM).
Renata is an alumna of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) Board and a Founding Member of All Raise. She holds an MBA and LL.M in Law, Science, and Technology from Stanford, and a JD from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. She's also a three-time state karate champion, jazz guitar player, tennis obsessive, and Brazilian immigrant.
Roseanne is a venture capitalist, early-stage startup founder and operator, scientist, and co-founder of Renegade Partners. With more than a decade in venture, she has gravitated toward pioneering founders tackling big, bold problems or taking on the status quo, with particular expertise in AI & ML, Fintech, Vertical SaaS, Infrastructure, and Consumer Technology. Her recent investments include AI evals platform Freeplay, gaming merchant-of-record Neon, conversational AI company Daily, and real-time incident response solution Rootly.
Annie loves to dive deep into decision making under uncertainty. Her latest obsession is on the topic of quitting. In particular, she is on a mission to rehabilitate the term and get people to be proud of walking away from things.
Annie is an author, speaker, and consultant in the decision-making space, as well as Special Partner focused on Decision Science at First Round Capital Partners, a seed stage venture fund.
Annie is the author of two bestsellers, Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, and Thinking in Bets, both released by Portfolio, a Penguin Random House imprint. As a former professional poker player, she has won more than $4 million in tournament poker. During her career, Annie won a World Series of Poker bracelet and is the only woman to have won the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions and the NBC National Poker Heads-Up Championship. She retired from the game in 2012. Prior to becoming a professional poker player, Annie was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship to study Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned her master’s degree. From 2021 to 2025, she returned to her alma mater as a Visiting Scholar, where she also taught executive education. In 2023 Annie completed her PhD in Cognitive Psychology.
Annie is the co-founder of The Alliance for Decision Education, a non-profit whose mission is to improve lives by empowering students through decision skills education. She is a member of the National Board of After-School All-Stars.
As Renegade Partners’ Chief People Officer and Operating Partner, Susan works directly with portfolio companies to help them build people organizations capable of scaling. Prior to joining Renegade as the first Operating Partner in 2020, Susan was VP of People at Zume, where she helped grow the company from ~30 employees to over 500. She previously led operations, marketing, sales, and account management in the Bay Area as General Manager at Uber, where she also launched the company’s delivery businesses, UberEATS and UberRUSH. She built the team from zero to ~50, and GMV from $0 at launch to $100M+ in just two years. Prior to Uber, Susan did business development, SMB sales, and operations at Milo, a startup acquired by eBay, where she served as a Senior Product Manager.
Susan started her career at McKinsey & Company, consulting for healthcare and consumer products businesses, with a focus on M&A and growth. After McKinsey, Susan joined CHB Capital Partners, a middle-market private equity firm, where she spent three years investing and supporting CHB’s portfolio companies. Susan has a degree in Economics from Duke University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. She lives in Boulder with her family and loves to hike and downhill ski as much as possible.
As Renegade Partners’ Chief People Officer and Operating Partner, Susan works directly with portfolio companies to help them build people organizations capable of scaling. Prior to joining Renegade as the first Operating Partner in 2020, Susan was VP of People at Zume, where she helped grow the company from ~30 employees to over 500. She previously led operations, marketing, sales, and account management in the Bay Area as General Manager at Uber, where she also launched the company’s delivery businesses, UberEATS and UberRUSH. She built the team from zero to ~50, and GMV from $0 at launch to $100M+ in just two years. Prior to Uber, Susan did business development, SMB sales, and operations at Milo, a startup acquired by eBay, where she served as a Senior Product Manager.
Susan started her career at McKinsey & Company, consulting for healthcare and consumer products businesses, with a focus on M&A and growth. After McKinsey, Susan joined CHB Capital Partners, a middle-market private equity firm, where she spent three years investing and supporting CHB’s portfolio companies. Susan has a degree in Economics from Duke University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. She lives in Boulder with her family and loves to hike and downhill ski as much as possible.
Barkha Gvalani is a senior product, data, and AI leader and the founder of BitGeese, where she helps venture and growth investors modernize sourcing, diligence, and portfolio workflows with AI, automation, and data systems.
She brings 10+ years of experience building AI/ML-powered products and decision infrastructure, translating ambiguity into clear strategy, scalable operating models, and measurable outcomes.
Jack brings over 20 years of experience as CFO in VC/PE to Renegade. His career in venture capital began as CFO of Ignition Partners, a firm investing in early-stage high technology and B2B software companies. He also managed the financial operations for their China based affiliate, Qiming Partners. After eight years with Ignition, Jack joined Columbia Pacific Advisors where he was CFO & Partner. He was integral in building a best-in-class team and financial infrastructure that enabled high growth during his tenure.
Jack’s career also includes six years as VP Tax & Treasury for InfoSpace, Inc. where he was responsible for worldwide taxation and gained experience in M&A, international expansion, and stock compensation matters. Prior to that, Jack was a tax professional at Deloitte, and he holds an M.S. Taxation degree from Golden Gate University and a B.A. Accounting degree from the University of Washington.
Jack lives in Seattle and enjoys tennis, travel, guitar, and boating in the San Juan Islands.
Love is an Executive Assistant at Renegade Partners, where they build on over a decade of administrative support experience. With a previous Administrative Services Manager role leading a team of talented executive assistants, and an extensive background working in finance and technology, Love particularly enjoys providing support to Renegade’s portfolio founders and operators. Love graduated with highest honors from UC Santa Barbara with a degree in Global Studies and a double-minor in Professional Writing and Poverty, Inequality and Social Justice.
In addition to performing administrative work for Renegade, Love runs Lovely Life Coaching and Hypnotherapy, a coaching and hypnotherapy business that strives to provide support to those seeking personal and professional growth, with an additional focus on marginalized communities and individuals experiencing re-entry challenges following incarceration. A three-time graduation speaker, one of Love’s greatest passions is public speaking. Love enjoys traveling, playing the drums, and writing teen fiction in their free time. Love is an internationally published fiction novelist.
Courtney is an Executive Assistant at Renegade Partners, where she brings over a decade of experience supporting senior leaders across finance, technology, and early-stage startups with a background that spans both corporate and high-growth environments.
Prior to joining Renegade, Courtney spent several years partnering with C-level executives and co-founders through periods of rapid growth, product expansion, and organizational change. She especially enjoys working alongside founders and operators as they navigate the challenges of building and scaling.
Courtney studied at the University of Washington and is based in San Francisco. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling, discovering new music, and spending time with her rescue dog. She is passionate about animal welfare and has a lifelong soft spot for rescue animals.
Jess is an Executive Assistant at Renegade Partners, where she brings a background in strategic operations and executive support across high-growth companies. She has partnered closely with senior leaders in fast-paced environments, helping teams stay focused, organized, and moving forward during periods of change and scale.
Prior to joining Renegade, Jess supported leaders across corporate, venture-backed, and later-stage technology companies, working cross-functionally with product, marketing, sales, and legal teams. She thrives partnering with executives and operators by helping teams build the infrastructure needed to grow and scale.
Jess earned her MBA with a concentration in Operations and is based in Half Moon Bay. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling with her husband, indulging her inner foodie, and is completely obsessed with her dog. When she’s not at work or at the beach with her dog, she’s likely lifting weights at the gym, developing in the sport of bodybuilding, or burying her head in a murder mystery book.
Barkha Gvalani is a senior product, data, and AI leader and the founder of BitGeese, where she helps venture and growth investors modernize sourcing, diligence, and portfolio workflows with AI, automation, and data systems.
She brings 10+ years of experience building AI/ML-powered products and decision infrastructure, translating ambiguity into clear strategy, scalable operating models, and measurable outcomes.
Jack brings over 20 years of experience as CFO in VC/PE to Renegade. His career in venture capital began as CFO of Ignition Partners, a firm investing in early-stage high technology and B2B software companies. He also managed the financial operations for their China based affiliate, Qiming Partners. After eight years with Ignition, Jack joined Columbia Pacific Advisors where he was CFO & Partner. He was integral in building a best-in-class team and financial infrastructure that enabled high growth during his tenure.
Jack’s career also includes six years as VP Tax & Treasury for InfoSpace, Inc. where he was responsible for worldwide taxation and gained experience in M&A, international expansion, and stock compensation matters. Prior to that, Jack was a tax professional at Deloitte, and he holds an M.S. Taxation degree from Golden Gate University and a B.A. Accounting degree from the University of Washington.
Jack lives in Seattle and enjoys tennis, travel, guitar, and boating in the San Juan Islands.
Love is an Executive Assistant at Renegade Partners, where they build on over a decade of administrative support experience. With a previous Administrative Services Manager role leading a team of talented executive assistants, and an extensive background working in finance and technology, Love particularly enjoys providing support to Renegade’s portfolio founders and operators. Love graduated with highest honors from UC Santa Barbara with a degree in Global Studies and a double-minor in Professional Writing and Poverty, Inequality and Social Justice.
In addition to performing administrative work for Renegade, Love runs Lovely Life Coaching and Hypnotherapy, a coaching and hypnotherapy business that strives to provide support to those seeking personal and professional growth, with an additional focus on marginalized communities and individuals experiencing re-entry challenges following incarceration. A three-time graduation speaker, one of Love’s greatest passions is public speaking. Love enjoys traveling, playing the drums, and writing teen fiction in their free time. Love is an internationally published fiction novelist.
Courtney is an Executive Assistant at Renegade Partners, where she brings over a decade of experience supporting senior leaders across finance, technology, and early-stage startups with a background that spans both corporate and high-growth environments.
Prior to joining Renegade, Courtney spent several years partnering with C-level executives and co-founders through periods of rapid growth, product expansion, and organizational change. She especially enjoys working alongside founders and operators as they navigate the challenges of building and scaling.
Courtney studied at the University of Washington and is based in San Francisco. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling, discovering new music, and spending time with her rescue dog. She is passionate about animal welfare and has a lifelong soft spot for rescue animals.
Jess is an Executive Assistant at Renegade Partners, where she brings a background in strategic operations and executive support across high-growth companies. She has partnered closely with senior leaders in fast-paced environments, helping teams stay focused, organized, and moving forward during periods of change and scale.
Prior to joining Renegade, Jess supported leaders across corporate, venture-backed, and later-stage technology companies, working cross-functionally with product, marketing, sales, and legal teams. She thrives partnering with executives and operators by helping teams build the infrastructure needed to grow and scale.
Jess earned her MBA with a concentration in Operations and is based in Half Moon Bay. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling with her husband, indulging her inner foodie, and is completely obsessed with her dog. When she’s not at work or at the beach with her dog, she’s likely lifting weights at the gym, developing in the sport of bodybuilding, or burying her head in a murder mystery book.
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