Janeesa Hollingshead is the Co-Founder of JJ Studio, a consulting boutique in Chicago that specializes in helping series A&B startups launch and grow their services. She spent the past decade working with companies, ranging in size from idea-stage startup to multi-billion-dollar post-IPO tech unicorns.  

Janeesa worked at Uber, where she was responsible for launching and developing their ride business in the United States and Brazil and Uber  Eats’ strategy and playbook in the Midwest in 2015 and 2016 respectively.  As the first Uber Works operations team manager and Head of Expansion and Local Operations, Janeesa oversaw the initial or design, strategy, successfully transitioning the ops team from a single-city focus to a centralized + local operations team model to grow to $20mm in annualized revenue and positive variable contribution margin within 7 months of  their public-facing launch.