Jason Mudrick

Jason Mudrick is a hedge fund manager and the founder and current President and Chief Investment Officer of Mudrick Capital Management. Mudrick Capital specializes in distressed debt and event driven investing and currently manages more than $1.6 billion in assets for high-net-worth and institutional clients.

Jason and Mudrick Capital were profiled in the January 2013 issue of Absolute Return + Alpha magazine.

Fortune Magazine named Jason one of the "Best Traders of Wall Street" in 2011, specifically citing his winning bets on CIT and SuperMedia. Jason was named as one of the 2010 Rising Stars of Hedge Funds from Institutional Investor.

Jason has served on the board of directors of several companies, including Safety-Kleen Holdings, Integrated Alarm Services Group, Salton, Rotech Healthcare, NJOY Holdings, Corporate Risk Holdings and Dex Media, where he is currently the Chairman of the Board.

Before starting Mudrick Capital, Jason was a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at Contrarian Capital Management, an investment firm specializing in distressed debt, which had over $5 billion in assets under management at its peak. Before Contrarian Capital, Jason was an investment banker in the Mergers & Acquisitions Investment Banking Division of Merrill Lynch & Co. He has a BA from the University of Chicago and a JD from Harvard Law School.

In 2010 Jason won the REACH Charity Poker tournament. REACH is run by Bill Ackman and Whitney Tilson to provide high school students academic support and scholarships for passing AP exams.