Jason Rigoli

Jason is a Partner of Enlightenment Capital and brings decades of experience in both operational roles and as a principal investor in the aerospace, defense, security, and government contracting industries. Prior to joining Enlightenment, he served as a Principal and Washington, DC office lead for LLR Partners, a private equity firm where he led aerospace, defense, security, and government services related deal activity. Prior to joining LLR, Jason was a Managing Director at Monument Capital Group and Principal with The White Oak Group, private equity funds with a range of investments in the defense, government services, and security related industries. Before the White Oak Group, he was a senior vice president in the diversified industrials investment banking practice at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Capital Markets (FBR) where he led M&A and capital raising efforts in the aerospace, defense, security, and government services industries. Prior to FBR, Jason spent over a decade in senior operations roles for middle market government contractors, including seven years with Pearson Government Solutions. He received his MBA from Columbia Business School, an additional MBA from London Business School, and a BA from Radford University where he played on the school’s Division 1 lacrosse team. Jason is on the Advisory Board of AlphaTech (a group of senior industry professionals focused on helping select entrepreneurs in the cyber security and data analytics industry segments grow and scale their businesses) and is a current board member and past President of the National Capital Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG). He holds a Top Secret security clearance.