About Us
ka·posh
KAPOSH comes from an Italian call-and-response phrase: Capeesh is slang for “Understand?”
Kaposh is an affirmative: “Understood.”
kaposh is change understood.
We mean
what we say
We don’t just help your organization grow, we work to understand the specific needs so you can scale with energy, efficiency, and excellence.
Energy
EFFiciency
Excellence
To understand how we got here, we have to go back to my roots.
I’m Robert Earl Jones, II — founder of KAPOSH. With over 20 years of experience in the education, nonprofit, and financial services industries, I know firsthand what it takes to scale and sustain a business from the ground up. After earning my BBA in Marketing from the University of Memphis, I started working in financial services as a teller. I quickly moved up in the industry, eventually becoming a Vice President at a leading financial institution in 2011. There, I co-developed a growth strategy for member sales and service activities – but I also felt a growing desire to serve more communities that needed my heart and hands more than the financial industry.
That’s when I knew it was time for a shift — one that would change my trajectory forever.
Moving into education was a pivot in my career, but it is a pivot I don’t regret. In 2017, I became Director of Operations at the largest US Charter school network, the country’s largest network of charter schools, which served over 80,000 students in over 200 schools. I oversaw all facets of operations, including developing an operational vision; communications; purchasing; managing Title I grants; compliance; emergency management; budget; facilities issues; and capital improvement projects. In 2021, I brought this expertise to one of the top-performing charter school networks in the Greater Memphis Area, serving first as Managing Director of Operations and then as Chief Operations Officer until 2022.
I’ve seen first-hand the difficulties that organizations face trying to meet their mission without the appropriate support internally.
