Private Equity Investor at hauerX holdings + Founder Courageous Minds Only + Co-Founder The Garage Group

Enterprise growth used to compound over years. Now it compounds over weeks.

The companies winning see what's coming months earlier, validate in weeks instead of quarters, and get to revenue before the window closes. Most enterprises are still operating on the old timeline. The gap is widening.

Jason Hauer built and sold an Inc. 500 innovation consultancy. Now he's building HauerX Holdings: a portfolio of AI-native companies that close the velocity gap.

The mission is simple: make AI-native growth the standard for every enterprise.

Not through advice. Through companies that operate at AI-native speed.

Speed to see what's coming. Speed to validate. Speed to revenue. Systems that compound.

The HauerX portfolio delivers what enterprises need to move faster:

Board of Innovation builds AI innovation engines across the commercial stack. They built Walmart an AI product engine that compresses 12 months to minutes.

Nichefire delivers predictive culture intelligence. Nestlé used their signals to launch Vital Pursuit first-to-market, predicting the GLP-1 trend before it hit mainstream.

FifthRow turns consulting workflows into autonomous AI agents that run 24/7. A Fortune 500 auto company validated 5 B2C businesses in 10 months.

3D Color produces color-perfect product comps in days instead of weeks.

Serial Growth Engine helps B2B companies build repeatable growth systems that scale.

Serial Growth Lab is where Jason shares the roadmap to AI-native growth. How enterprises move from slow to fast. From reactive to predictive. From campaigns to compounding systems.

Jason partners in two ways: backing growth-stage companies building AI-native solutions, and deploying portfolio capabilities inside enterprises ready to move from strategy to installed systems.

The vision: $100M portfolio. Built from Ohio. Serving enterprises globally.

Speed to signal. Speed to market. Speed compounds.

Jason Hauer

Marcelo De Santis

Chief Digital Officer I Board Director I Executive Coach

Marcelo is a seasoned C-suite executive and Chief Digital & Information Officer with a dynamic career leading technology, data, and AI transformations across global organizations. His track record spans Fortune 500 companies (Mondelez, Kraft Foods, Pirelli), tech consulting firms (Thoughtworks) and high-growth startups (NextData), where he consistently drives innovation, growth, and competitive advantage. He advises C-suites and boards on technology strategy, AI and business transformation.

As Founder & CEO of The Ascent, Marcelo brings an entrepreneurial mindset to coaching senior leaders, helping them navigate technology disruption and lead with purpose.

Marcelo also serves on corporate and nonprofit boards. Author of Figure-Eight, he combines strategic insight, technical depth, and a human-centered leadership style to shape the future of business.

Chief Digital Officer

Getting ready for tomorrow retreat hosted but the great leader and business entrepreneur marilyn ehrhardt, with mate in hand, notebook open, and full focus on what leadership really demands when the path isn’t clear.

This workshop is about lessons what it truly takes to lead through uncertainty, when answers are incomplete, conditions change fast, and pressure is real. 

The work is grounded in lessons from the mountains and translated into practical tools leaders and individuals can apply immediately in business, and in life.

Because #uncertainty is where possibility lives.

This is the kind of leadership that shows up when it matters most.

Looking forward to meeting and learning from great people tomorrow in a very special beach setting. 

Now booking workshops for April and May
If you’d like to bring this experience to your leadership team, board, or offsite, send me a message.

#leadership #innovation 

The Tech Series 
Executive House 
The Ascent

Fortune 500 C-suite | AI Strategist | Board Director | ICF® Executive Coach l Author | Host @The Tech Series

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Something important is happening under the radar.

A new wave of AI neo-labs is emerging, often led by former top researchers from OpenAI and other frontier teams. One of them is already seeking up to $1B in funding to build AI models designed for continual learning, not static releases.

They are rewriting the core processes of how AI is built:
• Models that learn continuously, not in version jumps
• New automation at the heart of training, evaluation, and deployment
• Labs optimized for speed, iteration, and compounding advantage

We’re watching the industrialization of AI development itself get disrupted.

The AI race isn’t just models vs. models, it’s evolving toward operating systems for intelligence vs. legacy labs.

Pay attention to this shift, along with the already evolving AI landscape in China and models built for efficiency. 

There is a subtle seismic shift gaining momentum…

HITEC 
Angeles Investors 
The HITEC Foundation 
The Tech Series 
Insight Ventures

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