Managing Partner,
The New Amsterdam Group
Jason is the Founder of the The New Amsterdam Group LLC.
Previously, he was a Managing Director at Everstone Capital. This position encompassed fundraising and IR, working with investors from around the globe; Jason joined the firm in March of 2008, and during his tenure as Head of Business Development, Everstone Capital successfully raised USD 1.9 Billion across four funds; two in PE and two in RE, taking the firm to USD 3 Billion in AUM.
Prior to that, he was at UBS in New York in the Capital Introductions Team for six years, initially building up the family office practice, and then covering Asia; during his time there, the prime brokerage team grew the balances at UBS by 350%, taking the book from USD 40 Billion to USD 140 Billion between 2002 and 2008.
Before his time at UBS, he received his MBA from the Wharton School in 2002 (he was the inaugural recipient of the Paul Green Award for Knowledge Creation), and prior to that, he spent seven years working in Germany (Munich Re, AIG and FM Global), after graduating from Kenyon College, cum laude, in 1991.
As an active Wharton alum, Jason has served in a variety of positions, as a VP of BD for the Wharton Club of NY (’05-’08), where he was also a co-founder of WHFN (the Wharton Hedge Fund Network) in ’05, and was a member of the ExecComm of the Wharton Alumni Association of India (’08 – ’11). Currently he serves as the President of the Wharton Club of Southern California.