Jesse Watson

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Biography

Mr. Jesse Watson is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner, Member of the Investment Committee & Chief Investment Officer at Virgo Investment Group. Mr. Jesse Watson serves as Chairman at Zippy Shell. He serves as Chief Executive Officer & Board Member at Ygrene Energy Fund. He served as Board Member at Transverse Insurance Group. He serves as Board Member at Ygrene and Lifespark. Prior to Virgo, he was a senior investment professional at Eton Park Capital Management where he focused on credit, distressed, special situations, and asset-based investing. He joined Eton Park through a merger with R6 Capital Management, where he was a co-founder, partner, and portfolio manager with responsibilities that included portfolio construction and hedging, management of the investment process, and firm strategy. Prior to joining R6 Capital, he was a senior investment professional at Silver Point Capital. He worked on both the public trading desk and assisted in the build-out of the firm's middle-market, private investment business, where he worked with several Virgo team members. Prior to Silver Point, he was an Associate with Clayton, Dubilier, and Rice (CD&R) and an Analyst with Morgan Stanley Capital Partners, the leveraged buyout principal investment division of Morgan Stanley. He earned his BA from Johns Hopkins University with the highest honors, graduating at the top of his class with Phi Beta Kappa distinction. He also studied at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and was a guest of the Japanese Ministry of Finance in Tokyo for a seminar on fiscal and monetary policy where he published a conference paper on private equity in Japan. He is a member of the Virgo investment committee.