Jason Schechter

Jason is the Global Head of CLO origination and US CLO trading at Jefferies. He joined Jefferies in November 2012.  Prior to Jefferies, Jason was the Global Head of CLO Trading and Co-Head of CLO Origination at UBS where he was responsible for re-starting the CLO origination effort.  Jason spent most of his career at Lehman Brothers where his last role was Global Head of CLO Trading and Origination.   Over his 25 year career in finance, he also spent time at Barclays where he was Global Head of CLO Trading, Morgan Stanley where he was a senior structurer in the CLO group and at Greenwich Nat West (NatWest Markets) where he focused on opportunities in structured trade finance.  Jason holds a BS in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from the Kenan Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina.