— Founder & Managing Partner
Dr. Jesus Recio
DNAP · CRNA · Founder of Recio Holdings LLC
Doctorally-trained anesthetist. Neuroscience-trained scientist. Clinical-and-operating background unusual enough in M&A that it shows up in everything Crownestone does.
— Profile
Dr. Jesus Recio is a doctorally-trained Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (DNAP, CRNA) with over a decade of healthcare experience spanning neuroscience research, ICU, and CRNA practice — including four years of clinical anesthesia in cardiac, thoracic, vascular, gastrointestinal, and neurovascular cases. He is the founder and managing partner of Recio Holdings LLC, the family holding company that operates Crownestone Capital.
His academic background combines a Doctor of Nurse Anesthesia Practice with a graduate degree in neuroscience and four years of stroke and cerebrovascular research at the University of South Florida. That clinical-and-scientific background shapes Crownestone's deliberate focus on healthcare services — fields he understands operationally and can credibly steward.
Dr. Recio operates Crownestone with a long-horizon orientation native to clinical practice: outcomes are measured in years and decades, not fiscal quarters. He believes the most valuable businesses are those held long enough to compound — not those optimized for a five-year exit.
Beyond Crownestone, Dr. Recio writes The Recio Brief, a publication on operator-led capital allocation, and maintains a personal site at jesusrecio.com.
The most valuable businesses are not the ones optimized for an exit. They are the ones held long enough to compound.
— Dr. Jesus Recio
Founder & Managing Partner, Crownestone Capital
— Background
The ledger.
Current
Operating
Founder & managing partner of Recio Holdings LLC and Crownestone Capital. Operating across the family ecosystem of healthcare-services, ambulatory healthcare, and AI platforms.
Current
Clinical
Locum CRNA practice through Recio Anesthesia PLLC. Four years of clinical anesthesia in cardiac, thoracic, vascular, gastrointestinal, and neurovascular cases.
2010–2014
Scientific
Stroke and cerebrovascular research at the University of South Florida. Four years of bench and clinical-translational work.
Education
Credentials
Doctor of Nurse Anesthesia Practice (DNAP). Graduate degree in neuroscience. A decade-plus across healthcare overall — neuroscience research, ICU, and CRNA practice.
— Operating Partner
Star S. Recio
CEO · Valence Growth Marketing
Operating partner across Recio Holdings. Chief executive of Valence Growth Marketing. She leads the brand, marketing, and content infrastructure that supports Crownestone's founder-focused outreach.
Her standard is personal, founder-to-founder dialogue at scale — what distinguishes us from templated acquirer outreach.
— Beyond Crownestone
Other properties.
— Personal Site
jesusrecio.com
Personal essays, clinical and operating reflections, and the long-form record of Dr. Recio's thinking outside the firm.
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The Recio Brief
Sharp, unbiased analysis for operator-investors — permanent-capital economics, healthcare M&A, and the architecture of long-horizon ownership.
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