Jonah Manning
I find the people
I find the people
other firms cannot.
Two decades sourcing executive and technical leadership — for Google, Apple, Disney, a16z, Juniper, and more than twenty venture-backed companies. That work became a holding company.
Currently
Wells Onyx
A private holding company. Twelve companies, each with its own brand and its own leadership, over one shared backbone — capital, governance, finance, legal, talent, and engineering held at the center so operators can do the work only they can do.
- Search & Strategy Retained executive search and embedded execution. The twenty-year heritage the group grew out of. I still run it personally.
- Vanta Health Group Independent review, utilization review, and dispute resolution for the self-funded health market.
Writing
- Humans Are the Ghosts in the Machine On the uncredited human judgment inside every AI system that works.
- The Rise of the AI-Enabled Chief of Staff On the fastest-emerging executive seat, and why it is so consistently mis-hired.
- Founders Journal Shorter notes on building, hiring, and the things that do not survive contact.