Jay Dave is the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer of Hughes & Company. Jay is responsible for administration, finance, operations, compliance, and investor relations of the Firm. He has over a decade of private equity firm operations experience.

Jay most recently served as the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer at Tyree & D’Angelo Partners, a lower middle market private equity firm. Previously, Jay was the Controller for Valor Equity Partners, an operationally focused growth equity firm investing in technology and technology-enabled companies. Prior to working in private equity, Jay was in public accounting as an auditor and valuation specialist at Ernst & Young LLP. Jay completed audits and valuation reviews for private equity and venture capital funds. He began his career in public accounting at Grant Thornton LLP as an auditor. Jay earned a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy and a Masters in Accounting Science with a Masters Minor in Finance, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive).