Jon B Kutler

Bio

Mr Kutler is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Admiralty Partners. Based in Los Angeles, he is responsible for the strategic direction of the firm and its portfolio of investments. Mr Kutler began his investment-banking and private equity career on Wall Street in 1984, after serving ten years in various positions in the US Navy. He has worked with Goldman Sachs, The First Boston Corporation and Wasserstein, Perella & Co, specializing in the global aerospace and defense sectors. As the Cold War waned, he foretold a paring of global aerospace and defense spending and resultant glut of capacity that would idle the entire sector, threatening both the security and economy of the victors. In a January 1990 issue of Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine, Kutler called for “an aggressive merger-and-acquisition environment” to forestall a high-stakes game of musical chairs for survival. Within months, the resultant merger and acquisition activity caused the sector to burst into an era of competition, efficiency and profitability. As a result of his advisory work on transactions in these sectors, Kutler was profiled by Institutional Investor magazine as the leading expert in the industry. In 1992 he founded the Quarterdeck Family of Companies, including Quarterdeck Investment Partners Inc; Quarterdeck Investment Partners LLC and Quarterdeck Investment Partners Ltd (both now operating as Jefferies Quarterdeck); Quarterdeck Equity Partners Inc and Quarterdeck Public Equities LLC. In March 2006, Kutler resigned as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Jefferies Quarterdeck (a division of NYSE traded investment bank Jefferies & Company Inc) to focus 100% of his efforts in private equity investments under the Admiralty Partners Inc banner. Mr Kutler is a nationally recognized expert in the field of aerospace and defense. Mr Kutler is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Naval Architecture. He received his master's of business administration degree from Harvard University.