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People Infrastructure for Growth
Meet the operators who diagnose and rebuild the people, leadership, governance, and execution systems behind growth.
Explore the Hive PathwayHive Enterprises · Operating Bench
Operators who build infrastructure where complexity becomes performance.
The Operating Bench brings together the leaders behind Hive Enterprises.
Across private equity, restaurants, healthcare, organizational transformation, finance, governance, people strategy, growth, technology, and community systems, Hive leaders bring the pattern recognition and operating judgment required to solve complex business problems.
Hive Enterprises builds the infrastructure. The Operating Bench brings the leadership behind it.
Why the Operating Bench exists
Organizations rarely fail because people lack capability.
They fail when strategy, leadership, operating systems, incentives, governance, and execution drift apart. Hive Enterprises builds the infrastructure that reconnects those systems. The Operating Bench is the leadership behind that work.
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Enterprise Operating Model
One enterprise. Multiple operating perspectives.
Hive's model combines complementary disciplines because complex problems do not remain inside one function. Strategy affects people. People affect execution. Execution affects customers and patients. Finance shapes what can scale. Governance determines what gets decided. Community and lived experience determine whether infrastructure works in real life.
| # | Operating Discipline | Partner | Contribution |
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| 01 | Executive Performance & Team Architecture | Rachael Kelly | Unlocks executives and builds high-performing leadership teams with conviction, accountability, and swagger. |
| 02 | Talent, Culture & Client Leadership | Bridgette Corridan | Talent architecture, executive alignment, and trust-centered client leadership. |
| 03 | People Operations & Stewardship | Maranda Jean | Living-systems people strategy, frontline resilience, and community stewardship. |
| 04 | Finance, Governance & Infrastructure | Kendall Jacobs | Institutional finance, governance, and AI-enabled operating discipline. |
| 05 | Revenue, Commercialization & Execution | Mimi Zou | Revenue architecture, partnerships, and operating rhythm that ships. |
| 06 | Enterprise Transformation & AI-Enabled Operations | Abhi Bhattacharya | Modernizes enterprise operations, integrates AI and digital transformation, and translates strategy into executable operating architecture. |
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Operating Bench Behind Hive's Current Priorities
Five commercial pathways. One operating bench.
Each pathway on hiveenterprises.co is answered by leaders on this bench. The commercial site names the problem and defines the engagement. The Operating Bench provides the leadership behind it.
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Restaurant and Multi-Site Operating Infrastructure
See the frontline, restaurant, multi-unit, workforce, finance, and transformation experience behind this work.
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Provider Growth and Operations
Meet the leaders connecting growth strategy, provider operations, healthcare navigation, revenue, and operating infrastructure.
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Healthcare Navigation
See the human-led navigation and healthcare access infrastructure behind Hive's care model.
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Executive and Board Alignment
Understand the leadership, governance, finance, people, and execution perspectives Hive brings into the room.
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Meet the Operating Bench
Six operators. One enterprise.
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Rachael Kelly
Founder & CEO
People are the multiplier. Rachael unlocks executives, rebuilds their belief in themselves, and assembles teams that operate with conviction, accountability, and swagger. The system exists to let that performance compound.
Role across HiveFounder and CEO of Hive Enterprises. Sets the operating standard across every Hive pathway and personally engages on people infrastructure, executive alignment, restaurant and multi-site architecture, and founder-to-institutional transitions.
- Active Hive Priorities
- People Infrastructure for GrowthRestaurant and Multi-Site Operating InfrastructureExecutive and Board Alignment
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Bridgette Corridan
Co-Founder & Chief Client Officer
Transformation succeeds when talent, trust, and alignment are treated as operating infrastructure, not soft assets.
Role across HiveCo-Founder and Chief Client Officer. Leads executive partnerships, client strategy, and talent architecture across HiveSMART engagements, and stewards Hive's most complex enterprise relationships end-to-end.
- Active Hive Priorities
- People Infrastructure for GrowthExecutive and Board AlignmentRestaurant and Multi-Site Operating Infrastructure
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Maranda Jean
Co-Founder & Chief People Officer
Healthy operating systems do not force growth. They create the conditions where people, teams, and communities can sustain it.
Role across HiveCo-Founder and Chief People Officer. Directs HiveSTRONG and leads people strategy across the enterprise, with dedicated engagement across restaurant and multi-site operators and workforce-heavy PE-backed platforms.
- Active Hive Priorities
- People Infrastructure for GrowthRestaurant and Multi-Site Operating Infrastructure
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Kendall Jacobs
Chief Financial Officer
Finance earns its seat when it makes leaders better decision-makers. Institutional infrastructure, not reporting, is what lets bold organizations scale.
Role across HiveAI-native CFO for HiveSMART engagements. Builds the finance, governance, and controls infrastructure behind Hive's PE-backed, multi-site, and provider-growth pathways.
- Active Hive Priorities
- People Infrastructure for GrowthRestaurant and Multi-Site Operating InfrastructureProvider Growth and OperationsExecutive and Board Alignment
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Mimi Zou
Fractional Co-Founder & CRO
Sustainable growth is never a single decision. It is the scientific operating architecture that carries every decision forward.
Role across HiveChief Revenue Officer and growth architect for Hive Enterprises. Leads enterprise-wide revenue operations, partnerships, commercialization, and investor and partner relationships across the Hive platform and its clients.
- Active Hive Priorities
- Revenue Architecture & CommercializationPartnerships & Go-to-MarketOperating Rhythm & AccountabilityInvestor Readiness & Partner Relations
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Abhi Bhattacharya
Executive Operating Advisor
Enterprise transformation succeeds when strategy, technology, operations, and people are designed as one executable system, not as separate initiatives.
Role across HiveExecutive Operating Advisor supporting Hive Enterprises and its clients on enterprise transformation, digital modernization, AI-enabled operations, and organizational design.
- Active Hive Priorities
- People Infrastructure for GrowthExecutive and Board AlignmentAI-Enabled Operating ModelsHealthcare Navigation
Profile
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Current Thinking
Current Thinking from the bench.
Editorial notes on what this bench is seeing across private equity, restaurants, healthcare, people strategy, finance, and governance. Full essays publish on Hive Enterprises Field Notes.
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Private Equity Operating Support
Portfolio-wide operating architecture, executive alignment, and people infrastructure that translate thesis into performance.
HiveSMART
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Restaurant, Hospitality & Multi-Site Operations
People, operating, and financial infrastructure built for multi-site operators scaling from regional to national.
HiveSMART
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Healthcare Navigation & Provider Growth
Human-led navigation and commercial architecture for provider organizations, employers, and healthcare platforms.
hivehealth
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Executive Team Alignment
Values2Vision, talent architecture, and executive integration for CEOs, boards, and operating leadership.
HiveSMART
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AI-Enabled Operating Models
AI-native finance, analytics, and operating stack design that removes drag and clarifies decisions.
HiveSMART
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Human Systems Infrastructure
The connective architecture across work, health, hospitality, retail, education, and community.
Hive Enterprises
Full Current Thinking forthcoming on Hive Enterprises Field Notes.
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Start with the problem. Hive will assemble the right operating perspective.
Hive Enterprises builds the infrastructure. The Operating Bench brings the leadership behind it.
The relationship
Hive Enterprises builds the infrastructure. The Operating Bench brings the leadership behind it.
The Operating Bench is the leadership and operating authority behind Hive Enterprises. The commercial platform, offers, pricing, and pathways live on hiveenterprises.co.