our team

Willy Schlacks is a serial entrepreneur and the Co-Founder & President of
EquipmentShare (worth over $2B).
Willy has founded 5+ companies and has raised $350M+ from top VC firms. He was born and raised in Missouri.
William Schlacks
Co-Founder, Managing Partner

Jai Malik is the Founder & General Partner of Countdown Capital.
Previously, Jai was an early product hire at two deep tech VC-backed startups (Accrete & Forge.AI) as well as an investor at Rocana Ventures. He is based in Missouri.
JAI MALIK
Co-Founder, Advisory Partner

Jabbok Schlacks is the Co-Founder & CEO of EquipmentShare (worth over @2B).
Jabbok has founded 4 companies and has raised over $300M from top VC firms. He was born & raised in Missouri.
JABBOK SCHLACKS
Co-Founder, Managing Partner

Brett Calhoun is the Director of Ops at Scale.
Brett has co-founded two fintech startups, early employee at VC-backed Paytient, and has investing experience with pre-seed to seed funds.
He is based in Missouri.
breTt calhoun
Director of Operations
Our ADVISORS

Co-Founder & CEO
of Zapier ($5B+ valuation).
He is based in Missouri.
Wade foster
Advisor

Head of Partnership & Founding Member at MainStreet.
Dedicated to helping founders in the Midwest.
jackson moses
Advisor

CEO & Co-Founder of
SUMMERSALT (Raised $40M+)
She is based in Missouri.
LORI COULTER
Advisor
Founder of Paytient (Series B stage)
He is based in Missouri.


Founder of Paytient (Series B+ Stage).
He is based in Missouri.
brian whorley
Advisor

Co-Founder of Calendar.com,
influencer, and Author.
He is based in Missouri.