Melissa Jauss

Melissa Jauss is an Executive Assistant at Portage Point Partners based in the New York office. She has twenty-eight years of executive and administrative support experience in financial services firms. 

Prior to Portage Point, Melissa was an Administrative Assistant at Capital Group, where she supported two Portfolio Managers and an Investment Analyst. She focused on heavy calendar management, travel coordination, and liaising with Fortune 500 companies on behalf of her managers. 

Prior to Capital Group, Melissa was an Executive Assistant and Office Manager at Reverence Capital Partners, which she joined months after the private equity firm was founded. She supported the three founding partners and oversaw all office management responsibilities for a growing office. Previously, Melissa was an Executive Assistant at Moore Capital Management, a hedge fund, where she supported the Chief Operating Officer and a Portfolio Manager, and General Atlantic, a growth equity firm, where she supported the Head of the Financial Services sector. At the start of her career, Melissa spent ten years at Deutsche Asset Management, where she spent time supporting, at various times, the Head of Corporate Communications, the Global Head of Branding and Advertising and a team headed by two Portfolio Managers on the Active Equity team. During her time at Deutsche Asset Management, Melissa also oversaw a team of administrative assistants, produced monthly, quarterly and annual reports, worked on various employee initiatives and organized client events for corporate sponsorships, including for the New York Knicks, New York Rangers, the PGA Tour and the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association. 

Melissa holds a Master of Social Work from New York University and a Bachelor of Science in Communications from Boston University.