Andrew Jurkowski is a Managing Director of the Ares Private Equity Group and a member of the Portfolio Management Group.
Since joining Ares in 2006, Mr. Jurkowski has been actively involved in portfolio management and private equity investments. Prior to Ares, he worked at Madison Dearborn Partners, where he participated in the execution of private equity investments. Earlier in his career, Mr. Jurkowski was an investment banking analyst in the mergers and acquisitions group at Morgan Stanley & Co., where he contributed to mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and restructurings.
Mr. Jurkowski currently serves on the board of directors for the parent entity of Kuecker Pulse Integration and the board of managers for Ryan, LLC.
He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, Anderson School of Management, where he graduated as a Venture Fellow.