About
JADEN
WARREN
Summary
Jaden is a licensed attorney and the Head of Diligence at Outlander Capital, a Dallas-based private equity firm that acquires intellectual property rights such as music royalties and patents. He graduated with High Honors from University of Texas School of Law, where he served as Research Editor of the Texas Law Review and was awarded the Pirkey Prize for outstanding IP research.
He has a B.S. in Economics with Finance Applications and a B.A. in Public Policy from Southern Methodist University, graduating with both Honors and Departmental Distinction. While at SMU, Jaden also completed coursework for an M.S. in Applied Economics and Predictive Analytics. His research has been published in five academic journals across econometrics, microeconomics, intellectual property, and policy analysis.
When not working, Jaden loves to read, travel, and exercise!
Education
UT School of Law — JD, High Honors
Texas Law Review, Research Editor
Order of the Coif
SMU — B.S. Economics, B.A. Public Policy
M.S. Applied Economics (All Coursework)
Expertise
Structured Finance & Specialty Credit
IP Acquisition & Diligence
PE Deal Structuring & Advisory
Applied Economics & Data Science
Ventures
3x Founder
HandleBy.AI — Voice AI for Small Businesses
Celeb — Peer-to-Peer Clothing Rental
Daisy Drivers — EV Fleet Rental
Early Life
Jaden was born and raised in the Dallas area, spending time in Rowlett, Wylie, Rockwall, and Lakewood during his early years. He was homeschooled K–12. In high school, Jaden used the flexibility of homeschooling to learn about moral and political philosophy, cognitive psychology, and many other fields.
He grew up around a family business, where he learned the value of caring customer service and dedication to excellent work.
High School Debate
Jaden competed in a variety of high school speech and debate events from 2012 through 2015 in both NCFCA and Stoa. He participated in Team Policy, Lincoln Douglas, and Parliamentary debate formats, obtaining over 200 titles during his high school forensics career, including 1st place national extemporaneous speaker (Stoa, 2015), 1st ranked national impromptu speaker (Speechranks, 2014), and 1st ranked overall debater in Texas (Speechranks, 2013–2015).
In addition to competition, Jaden was highly involved as a coach, training more than 800 students at summer camps from 2012–2014 and designing the first three editions of the Tools for Team Policy Debate sourcebook for DFW Speech & Debate.
College Debate
During college at Southern Methodist University, Jaden began the school's foray into IPDA, a limited-prep debate format. He won the first two tournaments he entered and ended his first season as 1st place varsity speaker at the Pi Kappa Delta national championship (2015) and 1st place season-long varsity speaker in the International Public Debate Association (2015).
In his second season, Jaden transitioned from competing to coaching, providing weekly lectures and prep assistance at tournaments across the country.
College Education
Jaden's education focused on two tracks: business and policy. At SMU (2015–2017), he studied economics with finance applications and public policy. During college, he authored research on post-expiration patent royalties and Chinese tariff policy.
While enrolled as an undergraduate, he also completed all coursework necessary for an M.S. in Applied Economics and Predictive Analytics, gaining advanced programming, data science, and econometric expertise. During COVID, Jaden returned to community college to take advanced math courses, working up through Differential Equations.
Law School
Jaden earned a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law (2018–2021), graduating with High Honors, Order of the Coif, and Pro Bono Honors. He split his studies between business and public policy, learning about tax law, venture creation, corporate structures, regulatory systems, and legislation.
While at UT, he served as Research Editor of the Texas Law Review, overseeing the implementation of a Python-based system that automatically scrapes law review articles for citations. He also won Best Brief and the Thad T. Hutcheson Moot Court competition during his 1L year, and published notes on copyright law, tax policy, and criminal justice reform.
Professional Career
Jaden has worked as the Head of Diligence at Outlander Capital since October 2020. In this role, he oversees the underwriting process for the company's investments, assists with fundraising, and negotiates credit facilities. He has overseen the acquisition of over $135M in music catalogs and closed a $100M credit facility secured against the company's music assets.
Prior to Outlander, Jaden worked as a Legal Intern at Marconi Group, an International Tax Intern at KPMG, and an Economics Intern at Comerica Bank.
Small Business
In late 2022, Jaden started Daisy Drivers, an electric vehicle rental company. He has grown his fleet to 13 vehicles, and through the process sharpened a variety of skills necessary for startups: forming entities, drafting organizational documents, financial modeling, accounting, financial reporting, tax strategies, personnel management, marketing, and process development.
Jaden is eager to share this expertise with others looking to start or grow a small business!
Startups
Jaden co-founded Celeb, a peer-to-peer clothing rental marketplace. Celeb grew to over $1,000,000 in inventory and was the first P2P rental platform to deploy multi-item ordering. It also pioneered AI-powered listing generation capable of automatically detecting the brand and style of an item from a photo — dramatically lowering the barrier for lenders to list their wardrobes.
Currently, Jaden is building HandleBy.AI, a company dedicated to bringing AI voice agents to small businesses.