The team

Three people.
All for one.

Three people who saw a better way to serve men dealing with hair loss — and built it together. We're a small studio on purpose — the same three people who built Monarch are the people you'll meet when you walk in. No call centers. No regional managers. No hand-offs. Just us.

Justin King, founder of Monarch
Founder, CEO & Idea Guy

Justin King

Twenty years a client · nine inside the industry

Justin saw what was happening to today's big-box hair system clients — and knew it didn't have to be that way.

Twenty years as a client himself, nine of them inside the industry as a model, employee, and senior leader, gave him a clear view of what good looked like — and what was missing. Rather than try to fix it alone, he brought together the people who could each do their part better than anyone. Tina for the craft. Skyler for the operation. And together they made Monarch a reality.

Outside Monarch, Justin's spent over twenty years in sales and operational leadership, plus nine years in ministry as a pastor at Nexus Church. Men's ministry, leadership development, and serving his community are where his heart lives.

“Tina has the talent. Skyler has the discipline. None of this works without all three of us.”

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Tina Starr, cofounder and lead stylist of Monarch
Cofounder, Master Stylist & The Crazy One

Tina Starr

38 years in hair · 25 years in restoration

Without Tina, none of this happens.

Thirty-eight years in the hair industry. Twenty-five of those specifically in hair restoration. National award-winning stylist with a reputation that travels — known for her scissor technique, her flawless fades, and the kind of natural-looking results that make other men ask where do you go?

She took time off in recent years to be present for her kids and her two grandkids — the kind of decision that tells you exactly what kind of person she is. Now she's back, and the chair is open. The energy she brings to a room is its own thing — warm, sharp, fast, funny — which is roughly how she earned the “Crazy One” title around here.

Outside the studio she paints, gardens, and crochets. Though — for the record — she still hasn't made Justin the Cleveland Browns blanket she promised him. He's still waiting. She's not in a hurry.

“Hair is what I do. People are why I do it.”

Skyler Wassmer, cofounder of Monarch
Cofounder, COO & The Calm One

Skyler Wassmer

Operations · faith · family of seven

Skyler is the reason this thing runs.

Where Justin brings the ideas and Tina brings the talent, Skyler brings the operational steadiness that turns both into a real business. The kind of guy who shows up early, stays late, and never makes the room feel heavy when he does either.

He's a husband and a father of five — which, if you've met any of them, will tell you most of what you need to know about how he leads. At Nexus Church, he's a key leader and one of the founding voices of Kingsmen, the men's ministry that helps shape what real brotherhood looks like in practice.

He's also — and Justin will admit this freely — the reason the gym side of any conversation gets quiet. Skyler benches over 315 and treats fitness like the discipline it is. Justin claims he'll catch up. He won't.

“Be the same man on Monday that you were on Sunday.”

What this means for you

When you call Monarch,
one of us picks up.

When you walk into the studio, one of us greets you. When you sit in the chair, Tina is the one cutting your hair — not a rotating roster of strangers. When something needs to be made right, you talk to Justin or Skyler directly.

That's not a luxury feature. That's just how a real business should work.

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