Bio

Jay Reynolds is a Managing Director and a member of the Investment Committee at Gemspring Capital. Prior to Gemspring, Jay was with The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm, where he worked for nearly a decade. While at Riverside, Jay was responsible for all aspects of the investment process, including sourcing, structuring and executing non-control investment opportunities, as well as post-investment collaboration with portfolio company management teams to implement growth plans. Prior to Riverside, Jay was with Veronis Suhler Stevenson, a lower middle market private equity firm, where he executed control and non-control investments. Jay began his career as an investment banking analyst in the Media & Telecommunications group at Merrill Lynch, where he worked on M&A, leveraged finance, and equity capital transactions. Jay serves on the boards of Sparkstone Electrical Group (fka Chicago Switchboard) and OCI. Jay received a BS in Business Administration, magna cum laude, from Washington & Lee University.