Arar Han’s business experience includes co-founding Sabot Family Companies, serving as Co-CEO of ResponseLink, and the companies acquired through the ownership partnership.
Sabot Family Companies
Arar Han and Shayne Fitz-Coy founded Sabot Family Companies in 2016 and lead it as Co-CEOs. Based in Palo Alto, California, the firm acquires and operates businesses in the United States with family capital.
Arar leads conversations with owners considering a sale. Shayne leads operating oversight and leadership development. The firm focuses on business services, consumer services and education, with the intention of owning good companies for the long term and developing the people who run them.
An owner can read the firm’s ownership approach and acquisition criteria or contact Sabot Family Companies.
ResponseLink and Alert1
Arar and Shayne invested in ResponseLink in 2013, three years before founding Sabot Family Companies. Arar was Co-CEO of the business; Alert1 was part of the same medical-alert platform. The investment ended in 2025.
This was the founders’ earlier investment. The company ownership record distinguishes it from the firm’s later acquisitions.
Rustic Pathways
Sabot Family Companies acquired Rustic Pathways in December 2019. Shayne Fitz-Coy became CEO in January 2020. Arar’s affiliations record lists her board service separately from the acquisition chronology.
Rustic Pathways is an educational travel company founded in 1983. It offers open-enrollment teen travel programs for ages 14 to 18 and custom group travel for schools, universities and other groups of all ages. The company profile of Shayne Fitz-Coy describes his operating role.
Work before the ownership partnership
Arar’s earlier work included writing business cases at Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business, and serving as Special Assistant to Ron Shaich at Panera Bread. Those experiences are described in her biography and case-writing bibliography.