About
Build a life of prosperity.
Founder and author. Jon builds companies, writes books and lives the habits he writes about.
Personal philosophy
Small efforts upstream. Big effects downstream.
Jon believes a successful life is one you design. Success in designing your life comes from small, consistent efforts made upstream. Over time they turn into big results downstream in health, wealth and happiness.
He has run his life on those rules for decades. He journals daily, eats cleanly, moves his body, and engages in activities that give life purpose and dimension.
A career dedicated to growth
A career spent building.
Jon has spent more than three decades in finance, life insurance and longevity science. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Colorado and a J.D., cum laude, from the University of Minnesota Law School.
Each company he has started has turned on one question: how long will a person live? In 2006 he co-founded GWG Holdings, which bought life insurance policies from owners who wanted to sell them, and built it into a public company. Pricing those policies meant estimating how long each insured person would live. In 2016 his search for a better estimate led him to the UCLA lab where the epigenetic clock was developed. The work he started there became FOXO Technologies, which set out to replace the blood draw in life insurance underwriting with a saliva sample. He is the named inventor on its core patent.
Today he is the founder and chief executive of LongevityFP (Longevity Financial Partners), an AI-native financial services company with two businesses. One designs new financial products for longer lives. The other, LongevityFP Technologies, commercializes molecular biomarkers of longevity and relative mortality risk. In 2026 it obtained exclusive rights to the FOXO technology through a license and an option to acquire it.
The Person
35+
Years in finance
5x
Ironman finisher
30+
Years happily married
3
Wonderful children
Driven to give
Giving back where it counts.
Jon believes in giving back where you can make a difference. He serves as a trustee of the Sabes Family Foundation, whose mission is to support higher education, health organizations, and children and families in need. He also serves on the board of the Adath Yeshurun Cemetery.
He is the co-founder of the Sauna Research Foundation, a 501(c)(3), with Dr. Hans Hägglund, Dr. Earric Lee and Glenn Auerbach of SaunaTimes. The foundation’s mission is to support the science of heat therapy and its benefits for the mind, body and spirit. In 2026, the foundation held the first International Heat Therapy Research Symposium in Oslo, Norway, with 15 scientists from 9 countries.
In his words
“Life is about the journey, and I want to make it as big and fulfilling as possible. I’ve learned that when I prioritize my mental and physical health, I can better focus on helping others.”
— Jon Sabes
Life in motion
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