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John Weaver "Jay" Jordan II is an American businessman and investor, the chairman and founder of the Jordan Company (TJC), a private equity firm.
Jordan spent the first nine years of his career working for the merchant bank Carl Marks & Co., Inc.[1][non-primary source needed]
Jordan founded TJC in 1982.[1][non-primary source needed] He invests in manufacturing companies, and follows a broadly similar strategy to that of Warren Buffett.[citation needed]
He is a director of Gulfstream Services, Worldwide Clinical Trials, Young Innovations, Lyric Opera and the Art Institute of Chicago.[1][non-primary source needed] He is a trustee of the University of Notre Dame.[1][non-primary source needed]
He lives in Deerfield, Illinois,[citation needed] and Amagansett, Long Island, New York.[2]
Jordan was married to Patricia Johnson, daughter of Mr and Mrs Horace L. Johnson Jr. of Overland Park, Kansas, and they divorced before 1992.[2][3] In 1992, Patricia Johnson Jordan, 43, married Dr. Vincent John Vigorita, son of Pauline S. Vigorita of East Hampton, New York, and the late Dr. John L. Vigorita.[3]
