Jacob Lee
Jacob grew up helping his family turn one small business into a multi-location regional operator. He knows firsthand what it takes to scale something good into something bigger, and how much of it comes down to decisions made years earlier.
His training is the kind large companies pay a great deal for. At Centerview Partners he took apart multi-billion dollar businesses to find what actually drove their value. He spent the decade after that on the other side of it, building: new business lines at The Athletic through its $550M sale to The New York Times, a venture-backed startup he co-founded, and the growth function at EliseAI, one of the fastest-growing AI companies in the country.
At Chairside he does for practice owners what he did for his own family’s business. Find the handful of numbers that actually explain it, make clear why they matter, and build the plan that moves them.
Chris Bayo
Chris grew up in a family of business owners across Europe and has spent his career operating, not theorizing. He learned early that growth comes down to picking the few things that actually matter and refusing to look away from them.
He started in investment banking at BBVA and moved into acquisitions at Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, then spent a decade inside businesses growing fast enough to break: delivery across Europe and the U.S. at Deliveroo and Uber, advertiser growth at Snap, and go-to-market at EliseAI.
He’s seen what happens when a business outruns its systems. At Chairside he builds the systems first, because growth without them just makes the problems bigger. Whether you’re adding the next 1% of growth or the next 100%, Chris makes sure you’re ready for it.