""This past year, I got higher conviction on two different things. One is that Jackie is the next right leader for Hinge. She's an incredible strategist," he tells Fast Company. "The other thing [is] I realized how much I miss and how much I love the early-stage part of building a company. That was where my heart was and where I wanted to focus.""
""I've been operating the business for the past year, since I stepped into this president role, so there won't be much change," Jantos says."
""Hinge has been so successful because Jackie and the team understand their consumer," says Spencer Rascoff, CEO of Hinge parent company Match Group. "They have [their] finger on the pulse of where the world is at with respect to human connection.""
Justin McLeod, founder and CEO of Hinge since 2011, is stepping down as CEO and will remain as an adviser through March to support the transition. Jackie Jantos, Hinge's president and chief marketing officer, becomes CEO effective immediately. McLeod is leaving to launch Overtone, an AI-driven venture backed by Match Group that focuses on facilitating connections between people. Jantos joined Hinge four years ago, led the "No Ordinary Love" campaign, expanded outreach to Gen Z—now over half of users—and helped enter markets including Mexico and Brazil. Match Group praises the team's consumer understanding and human-connection focus.
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