# Our Story & Managing Partner | Chesterton Hills
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## Built to fill a gap the market left open
A letter from the managing partner
I started my career consulting for Fortune 500s and enterprise organizations, leading growth and transformation projects: expanding a company into nineteen countries, structuring more than a billion dollars in partnerships, transforming departments, and restructuring organizations. I did that work under my first firm, Cannon Consulting.
Shortly after its founding, I got involved in the world of venture capital and startups. The more involved I got, the more clearly I saw a gap in the market. There are plenty of firms offering fractional executives, and plenty of specialists in a single function: finance, engineering, marketing. But there was no one dedicated to growth the way I believed it should be done.
Growth is one of the most important things a business will ever do, and it is the thing most often done badly.
I had seen it over and over. Companies growing irresponsibly, at a pace their operations could not carry. Companies entering the wrong markets, or entering the right markets without the right relationships waiting on the other side. Companies raising capital that did not match the plan, or running a good plan with no one at the table who had executed one before. Each of those mistakes is expensive, most of them are avoidable, and almost nobody is positioned to help with all of them at once.
So my partners and I built the firm that is. Chesterton Hills works inside its clients' businesses, across the strategy, the plan, and the execution, with the network to open the right doors in the right markets, so that growth gets done, and gets done right.
Jasper Cannon
Managing Partner
### Tell Us What Is in the Way
The first conversation is simple: where the business is stuck, what you have already tried, and what you want your company's next year to look like.
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## Advisory role and securities limitations
Chesterton Hills is not a broker-dealer, investment adviser, or placement agent. We do not offer, sell, or solicit investments or securities. Our role is purely advisory and connective; we are not involved in any deals or negotiations. Chesterton Hills is also not a venture capital firm, angel group, or other funding organization, we do not invest or provide any funding for our clients. Nothing on this site constitutes an offer to sell, a solicitation of an offer to buy, or a recommendation to purchase any investment or security.
#### 2. No securities activity, and no offer
Chesterton Hills is **not** a broker-dealer, investment adviser, or placement agent. We do **not** offer, sell, or solicit investments or securities. Our role is purely advisory and connective; we are **not** involved in any deals or negotiations. Chesterton Hills is also **not** a venture capital firm, angel group, or other funding organization, we do **not** invest or provide any funding for our clients. Nothing on this site constitutes an offer to sell, a solicitation of an offer to buy, or a recommendation to purchase any investment or security.
The firm is **not** a finder or a registered representative of any of them, and is **not** registered as such with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, any state securities regulator, or any comparable authority in any other jurisdiction. The firm is **not** a law firm and does **not** provide legal or investment advice.
The firm does **not** offer, sell, solicit, or negotiate the purchase or sale of securities; does **not** raise capital on behalf of any person; does **not** act as an intermediary in, or a party to, any financing or transaction; and does **not** receive any commission, success fee, finder's fee, or compensation tied to a transaction. The firm's capital readiness and investor services consist of company assessment, commercial and operational support, education, training, mentorship, company development, preparation, coaching, materials, and connections, and the decision to invest, to accept an investment, to transact, or to proceed on any terms rests solely with the parties concerned.
Demo Day participation is offered only through the full retainer-based Capital Readiness program, after the company's preparation is complete. The firm invites members of its capital network whose investment interests match the company's industry to hear the business presentation and make connections. Demo Day is connections only and is **not** a fundraising service. Hourly and project preparation engagements do **not** include Demo Day participation. The firm does **not** solicit investment commitments, negotiate terms, handle investor funds or securities, or receive success-based or transaction-contingent fees.