Banyan acquires leading software businesses and helps them grow through operating expertise, applied AI, capital, and a permanent ownership model. Backed by Norwest.
About the role
Aequitas has a loyal, established customer base, a platform with strong underlying functionality, and a clear mandate to grow. The Chief Product and Technology Officer is the executive hire that activates that mandate: the person who takes full ownership of the product vision, technical strategy, and engineering execution, and drives the platform forward.
What they're looking for
- Genuine AI-first development capability: an active practitioner who can lead a team through an AI development transformation
- Strong technical foundation: infrastructure, architecture, and platform operations depth that earns the trust of a seasoned development team and holds up through a legacy modernization program
- Hybrid, on-premise, or district-managed deployment experience: Aequitas’s multi-deployment model is a strategic asset, and prior experience in this environment accelerates impact
- Real product instincts: the ability to think beyond the existing customer base, define a roadmap with commercial logic, and own the product function with genuine conviction
- Team-building experience in small, complex environments: a track record of creating structure, accountability, and team cohesion where it did not previously exist
- Change management maturity: the ability to move a long-tenured team toward new ways of working without damaging the culture or losing the people worth keeping
More about this role
Banyan Software is the best permanent home for software businesses that serve specialized industries, their employees, and their customers. With a buy-grow-and-hold-for-life approach and a permanent capital base, Banyan acquires and grows companies worldwide, honoring founder legacies and helping portfolio companies modernize through shared AI expertise and operational discipline. Founded in 2016, Banyan operates more than 120 portfolio companies across North and South America, Europe, and APAC, and has appeared on the Inc. 5000 list for six consecutive years. The Banyan Software Foundation, endowed with $100 million in Banyan stock, leverages technology to build a greener and more equitable world.
Aequitas Solutions is a mission-critical Student Information System (SIS) provider serving K–12 public school districts, with its primary markets in California and Michigan. Its platform, Q, supports the core administrative operations districts rely on every day: enrollment, attendance, compliance reporting, and data governance.
Aequitas competes on trust, customer responsiveness, and deployment flexibility. Unlike larger SIS vendors pushing districts toward centralized cloud hosting,...
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