Based in Austin, Texas, Jef Rice is Lantern’s Chief Technology Officer, bringing over 25 years of engineering leadership across private markets technology and high-growth companies.

Before joining Lantern, Jef served as CTO at Altvia, the private equity CRM platform, where he led the transition to a data-centric, AI-capable architecture. Prior to that, he spent five and a half years at ZipRecruiter, building data infrastructure at scale from early growth through to IPO.

Jef is a hands-on technology leader with a track record of building and scaling engineering teams in complex, data-intensive environments. His appointment strengthens Lantern’s engineering capability as the platform deepens its coverage of the full GP-LP data flow.