Jeff Nykun is a General Partner at WndrCo and has spent 18 years as a public and private markets investor.
Prior to WndrCo, Jeff worked at several leading alternative asset management firms investing in public securities. Most recently, Jeff was a Senior Analyst at Artisan Partners where he helped manage all aspects of the $4 billion Antero Peak Group long-only and long-short equity-focused strategies, including research, portfolio construction, risk management and firm building. Before Artisan, Jeff was a Managing Director at Shumway Capital, a long-short equity focused investment firm that grew to over $9 billion in assets under management, subsequent to which he reunited with the former Shumway Capital CIO and COO to launch Cider Mill Investments, where he worked as a Managing Director focused on the business services, financial technology and consumer sectors. Earlier in his career, Jeff also worked at Luxor Capital as a Senior Analyst, Texas Pacific Group as a private equity Associate, and Morgan Stanley as an investment banking analyst in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group.
Jeff graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with an AB in Economics. He currently lives in NYC and enjoys an array of physical fitness activities, loves reading both fiction and non-fiction, and is an avid MMA fan.
