Jason Giordano has more than 20 years of professional investing and acquisition experience, with a focus on the consumer, education, and industrial sectors. He has been a Senior Managing Director at CC Capital, a private investment firm, since 2018. Additionally, he co-founded and served as Co-Executive Chairman of Collier Creek Holdings, a consumer-focused permanent capital vehicle that merged with Utz Brands, Inc.  Before joining CC Capital, Jason served as a Managing Director in the Private Equity group at Blackstone. Over more than a decade at Blackstone, he was involved with twelve initial and follow-on acquisitions totaling over $10 billion in enterprise value.  Prior to Blackstone, Jason was a private equity investment professional at Bain Capital and an investment banker at Goldman Sachs.

Jason currently serves on the Board of Directors of Utz Brands, Inc. (NYSE: UTZ).  He has also served on the Board of Directors of Collier Creek Holdings, Pinnacle Foods, AVINTIV, Crocs, and Ascend Learning, among others. He received an A.B. in Economics from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.