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Jay Gipson, Founder and Principal of Edenridge Partners
Founder & Principal Jay Gipson

Built on lived experience.

I grew up in a family where ownership meant something, in a community where your word meant everything. My father built and repaired computer systems for local business owners out of our basement and serviced his own rental properties, often with me alongside him. But what I remember most is that he was always there for someone else, too. When his lifelong best friend needed help launching a home care company after a family member's medical condition revealed how hard it was to find trustworthy care at home, my father was the first person beside him, assisting as it grew into an organization serving families across Metro Detroit. When one of my cousins taught himself to be a mechanic and opened his own auto repair shop, my dad was alongside him, helping him think through the business. Throughout middle school and high school, I tagged along and watched. I didn't have a name for it then, but the lesson was always the same: when someone in your life is building something, you show up. Some of them are no longer here, but what they built and how they built it never left me. It's why I care so much about legacy, and why I want to spend my career building something that lasts.

I've been building things since before I knew what to call it. At ten, I was charging kids in the neighborhood to fix their bikes. In high school, I was reselling shoes online. At 19, I was riding my bike between classes and dropping handwritten letters in mailboxes, trying to wholesale my first real estate deal. None of those early ventures made me rich, but they taught me something every chapter since has reinforced — from structuring credit facilities at J.P. Morgan to operating roles across regulated industries. The thread through all of it is the same one I learned watching my father: show up, do the work, and take care of the people counting on you. The temperament that draws me here isn't transactional. It's patient, persistent, loyal to the long view, and unwilling to cut corners. All of it has been preparation for one thing: to succeed one founder, to lead one company, and to spend the next chapter of my life doing that work well. Not as a stepping stone. As the work itself.

My commitment is simple. To honor what you've built. To lead with humility and relentlessness in equal measure — the way I was raised, and the way I believe business should be done. To care for your people as you have. And to be the person in the office every day — learning, listening, and stewarding the legacy you've built.

Jay Gipson Founder & Principal  ·  Chicago, Illinois
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