Building the digital infrastructure for a new age of travel, where home is anywhere you want it to be.
Jason Paez is the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive of HVN Travel Group, North America's leading professional marketplace for private home and villa rentals. He is building the digital infrastructure for a new age of travel, where home is anywhere you want it to be, for any length of stay.
Jason began his career in the sciences, in the Nobel Prize-winning laboratory of molecular geneticist Gunter Blobel. He moved into finance at Merrill Lynch and then UBS, advising operating companies and private equity sponsors across dozens of transactions, before founding Belstone Capital, a technology-driven merchant bank in New York. He served as a founding member of President Obama's National Finance Committee and advised the White House, Treasury, and Commerce departments on innovation and the private capital markets.
He holds a B.A. in Economics and East Asian Studies from Columbia University, is a member of Mensa, and has traveled to more than 50 countries. He lives in Atlanta with his wife, Meg, and their daughter, Chloe.
Assistant researcher in the Nobel Prize-winning laboratory of molecular geneticist Gunter Blobel. Honorable Mention, Otto Burgdorff Competition, for work on release factors.
Studied economics with a minor in East Asian Studies. University exchange at La Universidad Catolica de Chile, where he became bilingual in Spanish.
Worked as an analyst while a full-time student at Columbia.
Global Industrial Group and Financial Sponsors & Leveraged Finance. Ranked in the firm's top performance category. Worked on mergers, leveraged finance, and equity transactions across energy, media, transportation, and aerospace — including sole financial advisor to Overseas Shipholding Group on its $1.3B acquisition of Stelmar Shipping.
Served the length of the presidential campaign on technology and economic advisory teams; later advised the White House, Treasury, and Commerce departments on innovation and the private capital markets.
Technology startup in cause- and education-related ticketing. Recruited and led the team, raised first-round capital, and ran pilots with national foundations.
Technology-driven merchant bank; advised and invested across travel and technology-enabled services, including Vacation Innovations, ResortRentals.com, and BookIt.com. (FINRA Series 7, 24, 63, 79.)
Co-founded and launched HVN's business-to-business booking portal and 360 TripDesign technology. Now one of the fastest-growing travel companies in America: Inc. 5000 ranked #77 overall, #1 in Travel & Hospitality, on 6,057% three-year revenue growth.
North America's leading professional marketplace for private home and villa rentals. A business-to-business platform that connects a community of trip designers and travel advisors to a curated supply of homes, with the service standards of a luxury hotel.
Co-founded in 2019, HVN's booking portal and 360° TripDesign technology connect 3,000+ distribution partners to more than 175,000 bookable homes across 50+ countries.
stayhvn.comTechnology-driven merchant bank in New York. As managing partner, advised and invested in travel and technology-enabled businesses, including Vacation Innovations, ResortRentals.com, and BookIt.com.
An early technology startup in cause- and education-related ticketing, focused on connecting nonprofits and foundations with audiences through event-driven platforms.
"Going from our private launch at the beginning of the pandemic to #77 on the Inc. 5000 is a testament to the demand for a better home rental experience and the technology our team has built to empower trip designers in this uniquely complex category."Jason Paez — Inc. 5000 Press Release, 2023
Meg Partridge-Paez is Jason's wife and partner in life and in building. They met at a film screening in New York City and, after a nine-hour first date the next day, have been building their companies and traveling the world together ever since.
They married in 2018 in Ravello, on the Amalfi Coast of Italy, and took the shared surname Partridge-Paez. They live in Atlanta with their daughter, Chloe.
"We are tied together by the ability to bring out the best and most authentic versions of one another, a shared passion for mission-driven work, a wanderlust for new adventures, and a mutual love of snuggles, sandwiches, and silliness."
