Jonathan Barton is a founding partner and Chief Operating Officer at Meru Capital Group, LP, a New York-based hedge fund manager.
Jonathan co-founded Meru with a number of his former partners and colleagues from Old Lane, LP, another NY-based asset management firm of which he was also a founding partner and co-Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer.
Prior to Old Lane, Jonathan had been a Managing Director in the Institutional Securities Division of Morgan Stanley, a firm which Jonathan joined in 1991 having graduated from Cambridge University where he studied Law and History of Art.
Jonathan lives in New York and is married to Amanda Foreman.