Jason’s business experience spans the retail, financial and staffing & consulting industries. After graduating from Vanderbilt University, he spent several years in wireless and electronics retail before going back to school to switch from the front line to the back office. Master's in Accounting from Belmont University in hand, he started at Big Four audit firm KPMG, working with clients in the manufacturing, banking, insurance, and university sectors and earning his CPA license before moving to Tractor Supply Company. 

Jason likes to say he earned a “retail PhD” in his 13+ years at Tractor Supply. His time in internal audit allowed him to dig into every part of the business. He worked closely with company leadership to build annual budgets, long-range financial plans, and forecast near-term financial performance while on the finance team, along with creating and leading the company’s first “free-agent” analytics team. 

Jason built a nationally-recognized team as the Pricing leader at Tractor Supply that drove millions of dollars in value to the business. The team crunched data, identified and presented insights to executive leaders, created action plans for execution, and helped to build a competitive moat around the business and a lasting relationship with customers.

Jason has spent his years post-Tractor Supply strengthening his exposure to and experience with complex analytics, leading teams at Nielsen (serving Dollar General), Hibbett (fashion footwear & apparel retailer), and Vaco (staffing & consulting leader) to deliver strategic and financial insights based on analysis of vast amounts of data. Jason has also been responsible at Hibbett and Vaco for delivering many years’ worth of annual budgets, long-range financial plans, and multiple in-year forecasts. 

Jason grew up in Milwaukee, WI before leaving for Nashville to attend Vanderbilt University, where he met the girl of his dreams and made Nashville his home. Listen closely for the occasional Wisconsin accent that pops through in conversation! He has been married to Shannon for almost three decades, and is a proud girl dad to Anna, Bekah, Kate and Wenchi.