Jason Mehring

Managing Director at BlackRock

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Jason Mehring is a Managing Director at BlackRock. He is a voting member and a past Chairman of the investment committee for BlackRock's US Private Capital Group ("USPC"). Mr. Mehring focuses on the team's origination, underwriting and monitoring of middle market private investments, where he is the lead Portfolio Manager on public and private investment funds. These investment vehicles offer middle-market companies flexible financing solutions to meet their current and future capital needs.

Jason has over 29 years’ experience in middle market investing including his 18 years’ experience with the USPC team, joining as a Managing Director at BlackRock Capital Investment Corporation's former advisor in 2005. Mr. Mehring previously spent more than ten years at Banc of America Capital Investors (BACI), an affiliate of Bank of America, Inc., in Chicago, where he held positions of increasing responsibility, becoming a Principal of the firm in 2000. At BACI, Mr. Mehring focused on mezzanine and private equity investing in middle market companies.

Prior to joining BACI in 1994, he worked at Firstar Bank, a predecessor to U.S. Bank. Mr. Mehring received a B.B.A., summa cum laude, in Finance and Economics from the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, where he also graduated with University Honors, an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and he has served on a variety of private corporate boards.