Jason Ader: Gaming Industry Research and Investment Experience
Jason Ader's career spans gaming and hospitality research, investment management, and public-company governance. He formerly held a senior managing director role at Bear Stearns and founded Hayground Cove in 2003. A 2009 Las Vegas Sands announcement reported that he received Institutional Investor research-team recognition in nine successive years and first-place recognition in gaming and lodging/hospitality research in three successive years. 2009 company announcement
He served as an independent director of Las Vegas Sands from 2009 to 2016 and co-founded SpringOwl Asset Management in 2013. The 2021 prospectus for 26 Capital Acquisition Corp. identified him as its chairman and chief executive. These are historical career references, not statements that those roles continue today. 2021 prospectus
His research interests include prediction-market economics, competition in the gaming industry, protections for young people, and sports integrity.
He holds an economics bachelor's degree and a finance MBA from New York University. 2009 company announcement
Selected historical interviews and profiles
- Absolute Return Podcast episode 218 — a June 6, 2022 interview about gaming-sector investing, shareholder activism, and career experience.
- The Wall Street Transcript archive — a profile and linked gaming and lodging interviews published from 1998 through 2002.
The role descriptions on those third-party pages are historical and do not establish a current position or affiliation.