Small businesses are often built to last. But ownership exits and transitions don’t always support that.
Founders and owners face real decisions about what comes next, and the options don’t always align with how the business was built nor how it will grow with the next generation.
Jasper Lane was created to provide a different path for owners who care what happens to their company, not just what it's worth. We bring long-term capital and aligned partnership to small businesses with a focus on continuity, durability, and lasting value.
We're building with companies for what comes next.
People
Trust fosters engaged employees and creates opportunities for growth.
Time Horizon
Long-term thinking leads to better decisions and stronger results.
Alignment
Ownership and incentives align with long-term success.
Value Creation
Value is created through building, not extracting or engineering.
Performance
Financial performance and human outcomes reinforce each other.
Leadership
The way a business runs matters as much as how it performs.
We’ve spent our careers leading and building businesses.
Today, we bring our experiences to our investing approach and how we partner with businesses to enable a practical, long-term approach to growth and success.
John brings deep experience in valuation, financial services, and innovation, with a track record of building and growing businesses, shaping industry standards, and leading teams through growth and transformation.
His work has spanned institutional real estate, professional services, and strategic innovation with a current focus on developing and investing in purpose-led companies, drawing on his background in strategy, underwriting, and business building to help create enduring enterprises.
He brings an investor and operator’s perspective to his work, pairing structured, disciplined thinking with practical execution and a commitment to long-term value creation.
Rob applies over 20 years of experience in capital markets, financial risk management, and accounting to support the building of durable, purpose-led companies.
Throughout his career Rob established a proven track record of building long-term, trust-based relationships while managing multi-billion dollar financial risks for some of the most complex institutions in commercial real estate and structured finance.
A lifelong learner, Rob is dedicated to ensuring investment strategies are deeply aligned with a company's purpose, values, and vision with a focus on multiple bottom line outcomes.
Heather is an operations and strategy leader who brings the ability to understand what people need, communicate what matters, and build the operational foundation to turn vision into reality.
With experience scaling business lines, leading through change, and serving leaders as a trusted partner across financial services and technology, she has spent her career at the intersection of people and execution.
In an increasingly digital age, Heather brings a relationship and people first approach to building enduring processes and businesses and creating meaningful careers for others.
Kris is a growth marketing and commercial leader with experience building and scaling businesses across financial services, healthcare, and digital industries. Her work spans brand, operations, product, and go-to-market strategy, as well as acquisition strategy, integration, and change management.
Kris has partnered with founders, CEOs, and leadership teams to create and communicate vision and goals that empower teams and individual employees to pursue the best of their potential.
She brings an operator’s perspective to her work, combining data and analytics with a focus on pragmatism, team alignment, and building enduring, well-aligned businesses.
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