Johnny Jones

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Biography

Mr. Johnny Jones serves as Associate Partner, Vantage Mezzanine at Vantage Capital. He is primarily focused on the mezzanine fund's activities. In addition to South African deals, Johnny is responsible for the Nigerian market. He is responsible for the TrenStar investment and is an observer on TrenStar's audit committee. He is also an observer on Safripol's audit committee. Prior to joining Vantage, he worked in the leveraged finance group at UBS Investment Bank in the U.S. In this role, he specialized in the basic materials sector assisting in underwriting transactions and providing relative value investment recommendations for listed debt securities. Johnny began his career in 2000, working as an equity research investment analyst at Wachovia Securities in Atlanta, Georgia. His focus was on macroeconomic trends and investment strategy. Later, he spent two years at KPMG in the economic & valuation services division based in New York. In this role, he worked as a generalist providing debt and equity value indications for companies in industries including financial services, steel and entertainment.