Pleasant Lake Partners is a New York-based activist hedge fund firm co-founded by its current portfolio manager, Jonathan Lennon, in 2012. Lennon spent three-and-a-half years as a general stock analyst at JAT Capital prior to launching his own shop. Prior to that, Lennon also worked as an investment-banking analyst at Goldman Sachs. Lennon has been employing a concentrated approach to investing in global stocks with a focus on consumer, industrial/natural resources, and media companies.