Jon Benson

Jon Benson is a Senior Recruiting Consultant at Rand Thompson Consultants, where he has recruited across investment banking, private equity, and asset management since February 2025.

Before recruiting, he spent more than fifteen years producing, writing, directing, and editing television, most of it political comedy. He was a segment producer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart for seven years and then on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, produced field pieces for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and for Comedy Central, and was Senior Field Producer on The Problem with Jon Stewart from 2021 to 2024.

He has also developed and produced a podcast pilot, Staying Human, with Greg Epstein for MIT.