Bio

Jerad is a co-founder and Partner of OFS Energy Fund where he is responsible for identifying and managing energy service private equity investments, supporting portfolio company management and general fund management. Prior to OFS, Jerad was a co-founding Partner of Dorado Energy Partners, a $46.5 million private equity fund formed in 2008 to invest in lower middle market energy service companies. Before Dorado, he was a Vice President at PPHB where he focused on mergers and acquisitions and private-equity transactions for the energy service industry. Prior to PPHB, Jerad was an Associate at McFarland, Grossman & Company where he was involved in merchant banking and financial advisory assignments for lower middle market businesses. He serves on the advisory board of Cadence Bank, the Tulane Energy Institute, and the University of Houston Board of Visitors. He earned a B.B.A. in Finance with honors from the University of Houston and an M.B.A. from the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University.