Bio

Prior to co-founding Granite Bridge in 2018, Ryan Wierck was a Managing Director at Wafra Partners. Ryan joined Wafra Partners in 1996 and has approximately twenty-five years of experience with middle-market companies as a private equity professional and investment banker. Prior to joining Wafra Partners, Ryan worked at New York-based Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. in the M&A and corporate finance departments where he focused primarily on buy- and sell-side M&A engagements and private placements of both debt and equity. Ryan has an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BS in Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.