Blake Jones

Blake Jones is an Associate at Blue Sage Capital, an Austin, Texas-based private equity firm specializing in growth, recapitalization and buyout financings of companies operating in the lower middle-market. Blue Sage favors opportunities to partner with founders and management teams as the first round of institutional capital.

Previously, Blake served as a Leveraged Finance Analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where worked on the origination and execution of leveraged loans and high-yield bonds for financial sponsors and corporate clients for the purposes of LBOs, M&A, recapitalizations, refinancings, and general corporate financing needs.

Blake has a BBA in Business and a BBA in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin. He has studied Business Law, Law of the European Union at the University of Edinburgh and Business-Government Relations at the Washington Campus

Blake’s volunteer experience includes:

• Foundation Communities – Community Tax Center Volunteer Tax Preparer
• Zavala Elementary School After-School Program – student mentoring
• Financial Literacy Coalition of Central Texas – providing financial education
• Austin Young Chamber of Commerce – Economic Development Committee
• Club Blue of the Austin Area – volunteer and fundraising events serving the Boys & Girls Clubs