Welcome to the Second in Command Podcast, produced by the C.O. Alliance and brought to

its founder Cameron Herald.

In the second-in-command podcast, we talked to top COOs who share the insights, strategies,

and tactics that made them the chief behind the chief.

And now here's your host, Cameron Harold.

Justin has over 15 years of operating experience

with a deep background in information technology

management and infrastructure.

Currently Justin is the CEO of Drip's, a conversational texting platform where he's responsible for growth through implementing relevant processes and systems in addition to the oversight of the company's ongoing operations and procedures.

Prior to his current experience, Justin worked in private equity, primarily for technology focused funds where he served a dual role sourcing and doing due diligence as well as serving various CIO, COO operational roles in portfolio companies.

Before his time in PE, Justin founded a technology services and consulting company

and managed IT infrastructure and operations for banks, hospitals, universities, and other commercial businesses.

Justin holds a Bachelor Science and Business Administration from Northeastern University

and an MBA from the University of California Irvine.

Justin, welcome to the Second and Command Podcast.

I'm looking forward to learning a little bit about this.

So tell me a little bit about your experience in the, I guess, in the PE space and kind of what you pulled from that and maybe what you still use today in drips.

Yeah, I loved the PE space.

You know, as I'm sure you can relate to,

experience is everything for the most part

in a role like this, an operations role.

So being in a PE space, getting to work

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