Roost Leadership Team & Executives

Jonathan Gillons

CEO

Jon is a business leader, hunter-closer with a 10-year track record of taking early-stage companies to the next level. His entrepreneurial energy, charisma, and a keen eye for strategic partnerships have created over $50 million in deal value. He's helped launch 6 companies, 2 VC backed and 3 with exits. Advisor to Grownetics, Knkt'd Health, Unstock (exit), 500 Startups Alumni and mentor at Gateway Incubator. Accomplishments: - Developed over a dozen enterprise partnerships and clients with fortune 500's including Google, Apple, Bestbuy, Wallmart, General Motors, Enterprise, Airbnb, Hilton Hotels, Sotheby's, Lyft and more. - 500 Startups alumni (batch 12) - Developed hundreds of partnerships with SMB's - Raised $2M for my startup Roost, which was successfully acquired 4 years after inception. - Built over $50,000,000 in pipeline - Led 3 companies to exits, 2 as CXO, one as an advisor Superpowers: - Always getting the meeting - Motivating my team and keeping the energy up - Extreme optimism, endurance, and resilience in the face of adversity - Reducing the time of sales cycles. I am a quickcloser. - Creative problem solving - Comfortable pitching anything to anyone Specialties: Relationship-driven sales, strategic partner management, pipeline management, hiring and building teams, sales management, CRM expert, emerging tech, anti-fraud, copywriting, branding, events, community building, hunter closer, problem solver.