Jeffrey Serota Overview

  • Primary Position
  • Chairman

  • Active Board Seats
  • 1

Jeffrey Serota General Information

Biography

Mr. Jeffrey Serota served as co-chairman of the board at Great Elm Group. He served as Senior Partner & Senior Advisor at Ares Private Equity Group. He also serves as a board member at Paloma Natural Gas. He serves as Chief Investment Officer at Corbel Capital Partners. He also serves as Advisor at Paragon Partners (Mumbai). He served as Chairman at CIFC Asset Management. Mr. Serota served as Vice Chairman at Corridor Capital. He has over 25 years of experience as a principal investor, financial services professional, and operating executive. Prior to joining Corbel, he served as a Senior Partner with Ares Management in Los Angeles, from 1997 to 2012 and as a Senior Advisor to Ares in 2013. While at Ares, he was a member of the Investment Committee for all private equity-related transactions. This represented over 70 completed transactions with an aggregate of equity capital deployed of over $7 billion. He has led transactions (including sourcing, due diligence, financing, consummating, monitoring, and exiting) of a variety of sizes and in numerous industries including industrials, energy, chemicals, manufacturing, and business services. As part of his role as Senior Partner at Ares, he has acted as an interim CEO for certain portfolio company investments of Ares, led fundraising efforts for private equity investment funds, participated in numerous private and public companies as a member of the boards of directors (including serving as chairman of two multi-billion dollar public companies), and assisted in the management of the private equity efforts at Ares. Prior to joining Ares, he worked at Bear Stearns, Dabney/Resnick, Inc. and Salomon Brothers Inc. He earned his B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, going on to earn his M.B.A. from the Anderson School of Management at the University of California at Los Angeles. He served as Board Member at Goodrich Petroleum.

Contact Information

Primary Position
Education
UCLA (Anderson), MBA (Master of Business Administration)
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), BS (Bachelor of Science)
Gender
Male
Email
js
Phone
+1 (713)
Address
  • 1100 Louisiana Street
  • Suite 3800
  • Houston, TX 77002
  • United States
+1 (713)

Jeffrey Serota Positions (1)

Firm name Firm type Title Location Industry Since
Corbel Capital Partners Investor Chief Investment Officer Los Angeles, CA PE/Buyout

Jeffrey Serota Board Seats (1)

Company Industry Ownership Status Financing Status Location Since
Paloma Natural Gas Energy Exploration Privately Held (backing) Private Equity-Backed Houston, TX

Jeffrey Serota Network (94)

Board Members (93)

Name Company Representing Location From
Jaffery Firestone SandRidge Energy Self Oklahoma City, OK
Isabella Goren Lyondell Self Rotterdam, Netherlands
Lyondell Self Rotterdam, Netherlands
SandRidge Energy Self Oklahoma City, OK
SandRidge Energy Self Oklahoma City, OK

Fund Team Members (1)

Name Investor Fund Fund Location
Corbel Capital Partners Los Angeles, CA

Jeffrey Serota Affiliated Funds (1)

Fund Investor Fund Type Status Vintage Size Dry Powder IRR IRR Quartile
Corbel I Corbel Capital Partners Mezzanine Closed 2015

Jeffrey Serota Advisory Roles (1)

Firm name Firm type Title Location Industry Since
Paragon Partners (Mumbai) Investor Advisor Mumbai, India Growth/Expansion

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    Jeffrey Serota’s primary position is Chairman.

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  • How many active board seats does Jeffrey Serota hold?

    Jeffrey Serota holds a board seat in Paloma Natural Gas.

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