Jason
Paez
Building the digital infrastructure for a new age of travel, where home is anywhere you want it to be.
Scientist. Financier.
Founder.
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.
Research in a Nobel Prize-winning laboratory at Rockefeller University. Foundation in rigorous inquiry.
Mergers, leveraged finance, and equity at UBS and Merrill Lynch. Founder of Belstone Capital.
Founding member, National Finance Committee for Barack Obama. Policy advisor to White House and Treasury.
Co-founder and chief executive of HVN Travel Group. Building the platform that powers the next era of home rental.
From a Nobel
laboratory to a
new category
of travel.
A career that has crossed molecular genetics, global capital markets, presidential politics, and consumer technology, unified by a single thread: building things that did not exist before.
Assistant biochemical researcher in the Nobel Prize-winning laboratory of molecular geneticist Gunter Blobel. Honorable Mention, Otto Burgdorff Competition, for work on release factors.
B.A. in Economics with a minor in East Asian Studies. Exchange at La Universidad Catolica de Chile, Valparaiso (bilingual Spanish).
Analyst, Private Equity Funds Group, while a full-time student.
Analyst then Senior Analyst, Global Industrial Group and Financial Sponsors & Leveraged Finance. Ranked in the firm's top performance category. Sole financial advisor to Overseas Shipholding Group on its $1.3B acquisition of Stelmar Shipping; Senior Managing Agent to American Airlines on an $850M bank refinancing; Joint-bookrunner on Double Hull Tankers' $220M initial public offering.
Founding member. 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.
Founder and chief executive of a technology startup for cause- and education-related ticketing. Raised first-round capital; ran pilots with national foundations.
Founder and managing partner of a 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. Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO. Inc. 5000 No. 77 overall on 6,057% three-year revenue growth. Named twice to the fastest-growing companies in America.
What I've built.
The marketplace for
premium home rental.
North America's leading professional marketplace for private home and villa rentals.
HVN connects a community of trip designers and travel advisors to a curated supply of homes, with the service standards of a luxury hotel. The platform spans 175,000+ bookable homes across 50+ countries and a network of 3,000+ distribution partners, including the world's leading luxury travel agencies. Category idea: Havens, premium homes bookable with the trust and service of a great hotel.
Technology-driven merchant bank, New York. As managing partner, advised and invested in travel and technology-enabled businesses, including Vacation Innovations, ResortRentals.com, and BookIt.com. FINRA-licensed (Series 7, 24, 63, 79).
Founder and chief executive of an early technology startup for cause- and education-related ticketing. Recruited the team, raised first-round capital, and ran pilots with national foundations in New York.
By the numbers.
"Going from our private launch at the beginning of the pandemic to No. 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
Jason &
Meg
"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."
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.
Ravello, 2018Let's talk.
Whether you are building something new, investing in travel and technology, or exploring a partnership with HVN, I would be glad to connect.
hello@jasonpaez.com