Justin cofounded PennSpring with Lou Castelli in 2018. With over three decades of marketing and communications experience, Justin guides all marketing activities for PennSpring portfolio companies.

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Most recently, Justin was a founding member of a Nasdaq technology startup, helping lead the company through the IPO phase and into early revenue, raising over $40 million across multiple rounds. Before returning to PennSpring, Justin architected and executed the national marketing launches of two game-changing products, curating unique, parallel campaigns for both business-to-business and business-to-consumer audiences. Justin was previously head of investor relations for a boutique investment bank, and led portfolio company marketing and business development for a technology venture capital firm.

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Justin brings to PennSpring a wealth of unique experience: he was the National Park Service’s first embedded management consultant, consumer marketing employee #1 at Home Advisor (now Angi) and a program executive at a major nonprofit foundation.

Justin earned an MBA, Marketing Emphasis from the University of Virginia (Darden), and a BA in Economics from Vanderbilt University. He and his wife and daughter live in Denver, CO (with three very spoiled Pomeranians).