Future Forward Partners

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Forward
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25+ years of product leadership. Healthcare and supply chain.

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About Jeff Gantt

Founder & Principal

Jeff Gantt has spent 25+ years scaling product organizations — from 12-person teams to 600+, from startup to Fortune 500. He founded Future Forward Partners to bring that same product leadership intensity to healthcare and supply chain technology companies that can't afford to guess.

  • Founder & CEO at Polaris Mobility (acquired by Charitable Adult Rides & Services)
  • SVP Sales, Marketing & Product Strategy at Wellryde
  • VP Product Management at NuVizz
  • Senior Director, R&D at AirWatch (acquired by VMware)
  • Director, Product Management at Elemica
  • Director, Product Management at Manhattan Associates
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Advisory Board

Key Advisors to Future Forward Partners

  • Merrick Olives

    Merrick Olives

    CCO, Daykin Molecular Systems

    Merrick brings 30+ years of strategy and transformation experience spanning Ernst & Young, North Highland, and McKinsey & Company, where his consulting firm Candid Partners — the largest independent cloud firm in the US — was acquired. He holds an MBA from Cornell's Johnson School and a BS in Mechanical Engineering, and currently serves as Chief Commercial Officer at Daykin Molecular Systems, pioneering ambient-temperature RNA therapeutics.

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  • JP Halebeed

    JP Halebeed

    Technology Executive

    JP brings 30+ years of technology leadership spanning supply chain, enterprise mobility, and data privacy — rising from software engineer to VP Global Engineer at Manhattan Associates, to AirWatch, VMware, and OneTrust, where he served as Chief Technology Officer for four years before the company's $5.3B valuation. He holds a B.E. in Computer Science and has spent his career building and scaling high-performing R&D organizations at the intersection of complex software and enterprise operations.

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Why Future Forward Partners exists

Jeff spent two and a half decades scaling product organizations — and watching others struggle with the same problem: the work is too important to hand to generalists, but the talent needed to do it right is hard to find, harder to retain, and expensive to hire full-time.

Healthcare and supply chain are where that problem is most acute. The regulatory complexity, the operational stakes, the integration landscape — these aren't industries where you can learn on the job. You either know the domain or you slow everything down.

Future Forward Partners exists to close that gap. We bring in senior product leaders who've already done the work — embedded, accountable, and operating like owners from day one. Not advisors who leave decks. Operators who leave product orgs.

  • We act like owners, not contractors

    When the brief is missing something, we say so. When the plan has a flaw, we flag it before it becomes a problem.

  • We see around corners

    Most consultants react. We anticipate. We build the project plan that wasn't in the SOW because we can see what's coming.

  • We're accountable past the finish line

    We do post-mortems. When a product launches, we stay to understand what worked, what didn't, and what comes next.

  • We don’t over sell. We over deliver.

    The pitch is honest about what's hard about a project. Then we do everything we can to exceed it. We aim to build trust that turns engagements into long relationships.

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