Jackowitz is an established industry veteran with more than thirty years of financial and investment management experience, including twenty-three years as a chief financial officer in the alternative assets industry. Mr. Jackowitz currently serves as CFO of Declaration Partners, an investment firm backed by the family office of David M. Rubenstein, the Co-Founder of The Carlyle Group. Before joining Declaration Partners in 2018, Mr. Jackowitz served as Managing Director for Pine Brook Partners, a New York-based growth equity firm, where he oversaw the firm’s finance, operations, and compliance functions. Prior to that he served as the Treasurer and CFO of ESL Investments, a private investment fund based in Greenwich, Connecticut. He also worked with Harvest Partners, a New York-based middle-market private equity firm, and before that began his career with Schroders plc.