JEFF GONYO

Managing Director

Jeff has more than 30 years of successful private equity investment experience. 

Prior to establishing Geneva Glen Capital in 2008, Jeff was a Managing Director for over ten years with Wind Point Partners, where he was a general partner in four funds that grew to over $2 billion today in total capital under management. 

Before Wind Point, Jeff was a Vice President of Heller Investments and an investment professional with GTCR. Prior to joining GTCR, Jeff was a Senior Strategy Consultant with Ernst & Young and an accountant with PriceWaterhouse.  

Throughout his private equity career, Jeff has been an active board member of more than a dozen companies and led control investments which have completed over 130 add-on acquisitions.

He has invested in and managed portfolio companies across numerous industry investment cycles in traditional buyouts, recapitalizations, take-privates, industry consolidations and turn-around investments. His prior investments have spanned companies that operate in a myriad of industries, including business services, consumer products, healthcare, industrial manufacturing and publishing. 

Jeff has a BS with honors in Accounting from Indiana University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.  Jeff is a Certified Public Accountant, a member of the Association for Corporate Growth and serves on the Board of Directors of Reusability, Envision Home Health & Hospice, and Salon Freedom. 

Jeff lives in Glenview, Illinois with his wife Peg, son Nathan and daughter Elena.