Team - Jump Capital

Our team has broad industry experience and deep domain knowledge. We have successfully led organizations in high-growth and challenging environments.

Peter J. Carroll

Operating Partner

Peter J. Carroll

Operating Partner

Pete joined Jump Capital in 2016 with a strong foundation of commercial strategy and operational leadership experience. He was previously Principal and Operating Partner at Manasota Capital, serving as CEO and Board member of one of its portfolio companies, RGB Lights.

Prior to his role at Manasota, he was at RR Donnelley & Sons leading a variety of strategic finance capacities including corporate development, mergers & acquisitions, investor relations, and financial planning & analysis, and at SIRVA, Inc. where he served in operational roles including product management, project management, six sigma quality, and the SIRVA Leadership Program.

Pete has a B.S. in Mathematics from Purdue University and an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.

Sach Chitnis

Co-founder and Partner

Sach Chitnis

Co-founder and Partner

Prior to co-founding Jump Capital in 2012, Sach held a variety of investment and operating roles.

His diverse operating experience includes companies within the digital media, pharmaceutical research, logistics, and other technology/service industries. Prior to Jump he was as an operating partner at Tarsus and preceding that role, head of consumer moving for SIRVA (IPO: NYSE 2003). Having started his career in several of GE’s management programs, he has held functional roles both at GE and SIRVA, including product management and M&A.

Sach earned an MBA from Northwestern Kellogg after a Chemical Engineering BS from University of Rochester.

Areas of Interest
Enterprise software, fintech, customer acquisition & conversion solutions, functional workflow automation solutions, and transformation of legacy industries

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Austin Chung

Vice President

Austin Chung

Vice President

Austin joined Jump Capital in 2022 and supports the team on all venture capital investment opportunities.

Prior to joining Jump, Austin worked as a venture capital investor at Touchdown Ventures, an investment firm that manages corporate venture capital programs for large companies such as Kelloggs, Tmobile, and Olympus. At Touchdown, Austin helped source and execute 5 vertical SaaS investments and also worked with C- and VP-level corporate executives on a variety of strategic partnership, M&A, product, and new business development activities. Austin began his career as a software engineer focused on natural language processing, distributed systems, and data infrastructure.

Austin holds a B.S in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign as well as a Joint M.S degree in Computer Science and Public Policy from the University of Chicago.

Focus Areas

Cloud Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, Devops, Dev Tools, Cybersecurity, Regtech, Vertical SaaS, Blockchain / Web3, Edtech

Jason Felger

Head of Operating Platform

Jason Felger

Head of Operating Platform

Jason has a comprehensive background in driving strategy and operational excellence at technology-driven growth-stage ventures. Throughout his career, he’s served in a variety of B2B operating roles, including general management with an emphasis on the sales and business development functions where he’s partnered with founders and investors to respond to market opportunities.

Immediately prior to Jump, Jason was the CEO of Food Genius, a data insights and analytics platform for the food service industry, where he led the company through its acquisition by US. Foods in the spring of 2016.

Jason earned a BS in Finance from DePaul University and an MBA from Chicago Booth.

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Tarun Gupta

Vice President

Tarun Gupta

Vice President

Tarun joined Jump Capital in 2020 and leads the team on venture capital investment opportunities.

Prior to joining Jump, Tarun was on the corporate development team at Scientific Games where he helped the company complete eight acquisitions in the casino gaming, lottery, and sports betting space. Tarun began his career as an investment banking analyst at Livingstone Partners.

Tarun holds a BBA degree from the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business.

Areas of Interest
Sports Betting, Gaming, Fintech, Creator Economy, Retail Tech

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Robert Hutchins

Vice President

Robert Hutchins

Vice President

Robb joined Jump in 2021 to build mechanisms that accelerate growth and create scale within Jump’s portfolio companies.

Prior to joining Jump, Robb was on the Corporate Business Development team at Amazon, supporting various business teams structure and negotiating complex, first-of-their-kind strategic partnerships. These partnerships were struck with leading fintech and payments players, and enabled product development spanning eCommerce, physical retail, cloud, logistics, and marketplace selling customers. Robb's early career spanned various operating roles, focused on business development, strategy, and product.

Robb earned a BS in Economics at Northwestern University and an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.

Michael McMahon

Co-founder and Partner

Michael McMahon

Co-founder and Partner

With over 20 years of executive and financial leadership experience, Mike has operated, advised and invested in companies across a broad range of industries and stages from startups to mature enterprises.

Prior to co-founding Jump Capital, he was a senior partner for Excelar Group LLC, a provider of strategic execution and advisory services. He also served as President of SIRVA, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company.

Mike spent sixteen years with GE and GE Capital in a breadth of financial, operating and global assignments and is an honors graduate from GE’s Financial Management and Leadership Development programs.

Mike attended Pennsylvania State University, where he graduated with highest distinction earning a BS in Finance.

Areas of Interest
FinTech, RetailTech, EdTech and Enterprise Software

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Kasey Mitria

Office Operations Manager

Kasey Mitria

Office Operations Manager

Kasey joined Jump in 2016 and is the office operations manager. Prior to joining Jump, she was an associate at GCM Grosvenor where she spent 2 years supporting the fund finance department.

In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her children, traveling, yoga, meditation and is a connoisseur of all things gelato.

Kasey graduated with honors from the University of Iowa with a BA in Communication Studies.

Saaya Nath

Vice President

Saaya Nath

Vice President

Saaya joined Jump Capital in 2020 and leads new venture capital investment opportunities.

Prior to joining Jump, Saaya worked as a strategy consultant at Boston Consulting Group, where she spent time in the Private Equity practice and across a variety of strategy and operations projects.

Saaya attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she earned a BS in Computer Engineering.

Areas of Interest
Creator economy, Future of Work, Enterprise Education, Web3, Future of Commerce

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Will Nunez

Associate

Will Nunez

Associate

Will Nunez joins Jump Capital with rich experience in big data and analytics platforms, focused on researching and implementing emerging software, along with developing scalable data products across consulting, cyber security, finance, law and sports/entertainment domains. His educational background includes a MS in analytics from the University of Chicago and a BS in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

In this role, he will work across our investing areas supporting research, data collection, and analysis efforts while working closely with the investment team on identifying unique, innovative founders to partner with.

Yelena Shkolnik

Partner

Yelena Shkolnik

Partner

Yelena joined Jump in 2015 and leads investments across media and commerce. Prior to joining Jump, she worked across a handful of funds investing in enterprise software, media and fintech.

Before business school Yelena served as finance manager for DreamWorks Studios, focused on film finance and strategy, and as an investment banker with UBS focused across energy, software and media.

Yelena holds a BA in economics with honors from the University of Chicago and an MBA from Chicago Booth.

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Saurabh Sharma

Partner

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