Belstone Capital
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.
Jason Paez
Building the digital infrastructure for a new age of travel, where home is anywhere you want it to be.
About
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 Günter 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 Bachelor of Arts 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.
Education
Columbia University · B.A. Economics & East Asian Studies
Languages
English · Spanish (bilingual)
Interests
Opera · Chess · Photography · 50+ countries
Based in
Atlanta, Georgia
The arc. From Nobel lab to founder.
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2019 — PresentHVN Travel GroupCo-Founder · Chairman · CEO
Co-founded and launched HVN's business-to-business booking portal and 360° TripDesign technology. Built North America's leading professional marketplace for private home and villa rentals.
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2010 — 2019Belstone CapitalFounder · Managing Partner
Founded a technology-driven merchant bank in New York. Advised and invested in travel and technology-enabled businesses, including Vacation Innovations, ResortRentals.com, and BookIt.com. (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Series 7, 24, 63, 79.)
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2007 — 2009CauseSpring SoftwareFounder · CEO
Founded an early technology startup for cause- and education-related ticketing. Recruited and led the team, raised first-round capital, and ran pilots with national foundations.
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2007Obama National Finance CommitteeFounding Member
Founding member of President Obama's National Finance Committee. 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.
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2003 — 2006UBS Investment BankAnalyst · Senior Analyst
Global Industrial Group and Financial Sponsors and Leveraged Finance. Ranked in the firm's top performance category. Worked on mergers, leveraged finance, and equity transactions across energy, media, transportation, and aerospace.
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2000 — 2001Merrill LynchAnalyst, Private Equity Funds Group
While a full-time Columbia student.
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1999 — 2003Columbia UniversityB.A. Economics · East Asian Studies
University exchange at La Universidad Católica de Chile, Valparaíso. Became bilingual in Spanish.
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1996 — 1998Rockefeller UniversityNobel Laboratory of Günter Blobel
Assistant biochemical researcher in the Nobel Prize-winning laboratory of molecular geneticist Günter Blobel. Honorable Mention, Otto Burgdorff Competition, for work on release factors.
Ventures
Current · Lead Venture
HVN Travel Group
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.
HVN's 360° TripDesign technology launched in 2019. The platform gives travel advisors — for the first time in the category — a single professional tool for search, booking, service, and guest experience, across more than 175,000 bookable homes.
Visit HVN
CauseSpring Software
Founded an early technology startup in cause- and education-related ticketing. Recruited and led the team, raised first-round capital, and ran pilots with national foundations.
Investment Banking
Senior Analyst at UBS Investment Bank, Global Industrial Group and Financial Sponsors. Ranked in the firm's top performance category. Sole financial advisor to Overseas Shipholding Group on its $1.3 billion acquisition of Stelmar Shipping.
Recognition
#77
Inc. 5000 Overall Rank · 2023
6,057%
Three-Year Revenue Growth
175K+
Bookable Homes
3,000+
Distribution Partners
50+
Countries Traveled
Inc. 5000 · #77 Overall · #1 Travel
Inc. 5000 · Two-Time Honoree
Travel Weekly Magellan Gold
Skift Industry Innovator
"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, 2023
Megan & Jason.
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, 2018"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."