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Justin Leader

CEO & Managing Partner of Human Renaissance. Operator who built and exited a firm — and now embeds inside other tech middle-market firms when the situation requires it.

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Operator credentials

Justin bootstrapped a technology services firm from a laptop into an award-winning practice, then exited successfully. The firm grew 4× annually while holding 22% EBITDA margins, hit 68% win rates against Big 4 competitors, and held 100% staff retention through a complex divestiture. He has personally led technical rescues across global media and entertainment ($90B+), enterprise cybersecurity ($7B+), enterprise hardware ($90B+), enterprise infrastructure ($30B+), DoD agencies, global film and television studios, top-tier financial services, and global electronics OEMs. Prior environments are described by industry and scale.

How Justin works

Most advisors offer financial engineering (CFO-led) or strategy (MBA-led). Justin offers operational and technical engineering — bridging the gap between the code and the quarter. He embeds alongside teams as interim CEO, CFO, CTO, or CPO when the situation demands. He measures everything: win rates, forecast accuracy, NRR, EBITDA, retention, hiring accuracy.

Speaking, writing, advising

Justin's commentary on M&A, turnaround, and performance improvement appears across the Market Intelligence library. He advises PE Operating Partners on portfolio interventions, founder-CEOs hitting the operational ceiling, and enterprise CIOs whose initiatives have stalled.

By the numbers

$500M+
value delivered to Fortune 500 divisions
annual revenue growth at the operator's prior services firm
22%
EBITDA margins maintained through growth
68%
sales win rate vs. 29% industry average
92%
forecast accuracy from "guessing"
95%
post-merger customer retention
100%
staff retention 9 months post-close
92%
hiring accuracy across 40+ hires
$3M
stalled initiative at a Fortune 500 cybersecurity vendor unblocked in 30 days
28,000
users migrated with zero downtime

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