Jef Rogers
Managing Director, Heritage Group
Joined Gryphon: 2020
Industry Group: Operations Resources Group
Currently serves on Gryphon Company Board:
Kano Laboratories
Repipe Specialists
Jef is a Managing Director within Gryphon’s Heritage Fund team. In his role, he supports the underwriting and diligence of new Gryphon Heritage Fund investments, and partners with the management teams at Gryphon’s Heritage Fund portfolio companies across the investment lifecycle on value creation programs and strategy development. During his first tenure at Gryphon, from 2002-2014, Jef assisted with the execution and performance improvement of investments including Bright Now! Dental, Eight O’Clock Coffee, Flagstone Foods, Intelligrated, K&N Engineering, MSD Ignition, SynteractHCR, Trinity Consultants, and Trusthouse Services.
Prior to Gryphon, Jef’s experience included:- EY-Parthenon, Senior Partner, Strategy & Operations
- Gryphon Investors, Operations Principal
- Citadel Investment Group, Senior Vice President
- Recovery Equity Partners, Vice President
- Booz & Co., Associate
- Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Assistant Brand Manager
- Procter & Gamble, Assistant Brand Manager
J.D., University of Michigan
M.B.A., Strategy, University of Michigan
B.A., Political Economy, Williams College