Turning Complexity into Opportunity.
JEM Capital Management is a private investment manager that takes concentrated positions in opportunistic and special situations using a skillset forged in distressed experiences.
About Us
Our mission is to compound capital responsibly over the long term.
We seek mispriced opportunities with durable upside, applying a bottom-up fundamental approach informed by years of hands-on work operating and advising distressed businesses. That experience has shaped a simple conviction: while paths to success are numerous and unpredictable, the ways businesses fail tend to be finite and recognizable — and avoiding them is half the discipline.
Our approach is industry-agnostic and cross-capitalization.
Our Strategy
Team
Jon Matla
Managing Partner
Jon is the managing partner and portfolio manager of JEM Capital Management, which he founded in 2024.
He is also the co-director for the Wharton & Wall Street Prep Restructuring & Distressed Investing Certificate program: wallstreetprep.wharton.upenn.edu/restructuring-distressed-investing-certificate/
Prior to JEM, Jon worked at Guggenheim Partners and EY-Parthenon in their restructuring and liability management groups. There, Jon advised large corporations, hedge funds, private equity firms, and middle-market businesses on high-stakes, complex investment decisions and restructuring situations. Jon has supported companies through periods of uncertainty via operational improvements, distressed financing, liability management negotiations, asset sales, and chapter 11 reorganization.
Jon earned a B.S. in Industrial Engineering, an M.S. in Quantitative Finance, and an MBA, all from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jon-matla/
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