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Jason Gelberd

Partner, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Head of Direct Lending

Jason joined Manulife | Comvest Credit Partners (formerly Comvest Credit Partners) in 2013. As Partner, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Head of Direct Lending, he is responsible for the platform’s operations and portfolio management in addition to originating, structuring and managing investments for the direct lending and opportunistic credit investment strategies. Jason also serves as a member the investment committees for both strategies.

Prior to joining Manulife | Comvest Credit Partners, Jason was a Director of Goldman Sachs Specialty Lending Group within the Special Situations group, where he focused on underwriting and structuring senior and junior debt transactions to middle-market companies and led the development and growth of a successful Lender Finance product line that invested capital in commercial and consumer specialty finance companies. Before that, he was a Vice President at Antares Capital, where he provided senior and junior capital to private equity sponsor-backed middle-market companies. Jason’s lending career also has included commercial lending positions at First Source Financial and LaSalle National Bank.

Jason received an M.B.A. from the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University and a B.B.A. in Finance from The University of Iowa.

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