Jake Bittner

Jake Bittner is a Partner at Mission Support Partners, a private investment firm focused on emerging technology businesses in the aerospace, defense and government services markets. He brings deep experience in business development, marketing and executive leadership developed over his 25-year career in the technology industry.

In 2010, Jake acquired Qlarion, a government data analytics firm, and led the firm as owner and CEO until the successful sale in 2021 to private equity backed GCOM Software (now Voyatek). Under his leadership, Qlarion became a go-to company at the epicenter of many strategic efforts by federal, state and local governments to use data analytics to solve complex organizational, legal, and technical challenges.

After selling Qlarion, Jake stayed on to serve as GCOM’s Chief Growth Officer overseeing all aspects of business development and marketing. As a member of GCOM’s Executive Leadership Team, he was closely involved in the evaluation, due diligence and integration of additional M&A transactions for the platform company.

Jake holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University, where he was a member of Yale’s football team. He is also a member of MindShare, an invite-only network for the most promising DC area CEOs in emerging tech companies.