Co-Founder and Founding Partner, Svperior
Jonathan P. De Collibus
American-born.
Italian blood.
Raised in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
01 / The beginning
He broke his first horse at 13.
At 15, he killed his first cow.
Long before boardrooms, algorithms, and billion-dollar systems, Jonathan learns what responsibility feels like when it is physical, immediate, and impossible to delegate.
In the mountains, decisions have consequences. If something goes wrong, there is no committee to hide behind. You face the result, fix what you can, and carry what you cannot.
That instinct never leaves him.
02 / The record
Sixteen companies. Old-school work ethic.
The next 19 years move fast. Jonathan founds or co-founds 16 companies. He builds quantitative systems, trades derivatives and futures, holds board positions across three countries, and directs code that processes more than $1 billion in transaction volume.
- 16
- Companies founded or co-founded
- $1B+
- Transaction volume processed by code under his direction
- 3
- Countries with board positions
The lesson that stays
His mentor, Eli Goldratt, teaches him to look for the bottleneck: the one point holding the whole company back.
Jonathan gets the facts. He finds the bottleneck, removes it, and goes looking for the next one. That is how companies move.
03 / 2014
Enter Svperior.
Jonathan co-founds Svperior with his brother, Adam J. De Collibus.
They build the firm for work that has to function. Svperior engineers clinical, financial, institutional, and public-sector technology where a failure can stop an operation, expose private information, or cost real money.
Today, Jonathan leads cyber strategy, adversarial assessment, and security architecture. He works directly with principals, family offices, private banks, boards, legal counsel, and the people who will carry the blame if it goes wrong.
04 / The outside view
He finds the way in.
Most security programmes begin inside the organisation.
Jonathan begins outside it.
- What is public?
- What is exposed?
- What can be inferred?
- Who can be approached?
- Which systems can be reached?
- Where can pressure change a decision?
He finds the route an attacker would actually use, then closes it.
05 / Skin in the game
He puts his own money on the line.
Jonathan learns risk with his own money on the line.
He trades derivatives and futures using ARK IV, his proprietary algorithm. There, being clever does not protect him and conviction does not make him right. Every position has a point at which the facts change. Miss it, and the market takes the money directly from his account.
So he knows the loss before he takes the risk. He knows where the position breaks. And when it breaks, he gets out.
That instinct now travels with him everywhere: find the exposure, count the cost and act before the damage is done.
06 / What comes next
He hears the wood splintering.
Jonathan has no interest in predicting the future from the safety of the sidelines. He studies history, systems, leverage, and sovereignty to recognise when an old rule no longer works.
In his 2026 letter, My Prediction for the Next 24 Months, he argues that the next generation of great companies will not be measured by the size of their workforce, but by the value each person can create.
Small core.
Enormous reach.
Less infrastructure.
More force.
He does not wait for consensus.Read the letter
He builds for what comes after it.
07 / The standard
Jonathan does not worship technology. He expects it to work.
- 01Get the facts.
- 02Decide what cannot fail.
- 03Fix what is broken.
- 04Add the technology.
- 05Try to break it again.
The tools change. The standard does not.
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Jonathan works directly with principals, families, boards, and institutions where a breach can cost money, reputation, or control.
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