Jason Knoblauch
Chief Financial Officer
Jason Knoblauch joined Fortrea in July 2026 as Chief Financial Officer. He leads Fortrea’s finance strategy and organization, serving as a member of its executive team.
Jason is a finance executive known for driving sustained growth and value creation across leading life-sciences organizations, with a keen focus on patients and the client experience. He joins Fortrea from Clario, a leading provider of endpoint data solutions to the clinical trials industry, where he served as CFO. Previously, Jason was CFO at Curia, a global contract research, development and manufacturing organization. Prior to Curia, he served in various financial leadership roles at Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD), including interim CFO and as a member of the senior leadership team that led PPD to a successful IPO in 2020. Earlier in his career, he was a director in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Transaction Services practice.
Jason earned a Bachelor of Science in business administration with a concentration in finance and economics from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. He holds a Master of Science in accounting from the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia.