Jason Dussen

Jason Van Dussen is a Senior Managing Director at Golub Capital, where he serves as Chief Client Officer for Sponsor Finance and heads the firm's Debt Capital Markets business within Direct Lending. He is responsible for strategic client relationship management, leads the Debt Capital Markets team, and sits on the firm's Investment Committee. He joined Golub Capital in 2010, originally hired as a Managing Director in the Capital Markets Group to leverage his syndication and retail-partner relationships.

Before Golub, Van Dussen built more than 15 years of capital-markets experience focused on loan syndications, trading, and structuring. Immediately prior to joining Golub he was Managing Director and Head of Loan Sales at CIT. Earlier he held comparable capital-markets roles at FirstLight Financial Corporation (where he was Managing Director and Head of Capital Markets) and at GE Capital, where he worked on middle-market structuring, syndication, and loan sales.

He earned a BA in Finance, cum laude, from Michigan State University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Golub Capital is a market-leading direct lender and private credit asset manager with roughly $75+ billion in capital under management, specializing in financing private-equity-backed (sponsor-owned) middle-market businesses. As of recent firm announcements, Van Dussen is one of an eight-member senior management team overseeing Golub's middle-market lending group, and his capital-markets function is central to how the firm syndicates and distributes the large unitranche and senior loans it originates.

• Van Dussen operates on the debt / private credit side, not equity. Golub provides senior secured loans, unitranche financings, and one-stop credit solutions to established, profitable, PE-sponsored middle-market companies — not early-stage startups.
• His specific mandate is debt capital markets and client relationships: structuring, syndicating, and distributing loans, and managing relationships with private equity sponsors and co-lenders/syndication partners.
• Golub's stated approach is building "long-term, win-win partnerships" with sponsors, emphasizing reliability, speed, and certainty of close as a relationship lender rather than a transactional one.
• Golub is one of the largest non-bank lenders to the software sector, so technology/software-enabled businesses with recurring revenue are a recurring theme in the firm's deal flow.
• "Say yes" criteria are credit-driven: durable cash flows, a strong financial sponsor, and a defensible business — the opposite of speculative seed-stage bets.