Qayyum Hafeez

Mr. Hafeez's private equity experience includes deal sourcing, due diligence, structuring, and negotiating new investments and providing guidance on managing a portfolio of investments across a wide range of industries.
Prior to Odeon Capital, Mr. Hafeez was an investment banker in Bear Stearns’ M&A and telecommunications groups where he advised corporate clients on M&A, financing, and restructuring transactions including the acquisition of Keebler Foods by Kellogg, IPO for Agere Systems, and restructuring of General Motors’ Hughes Electronics.
Mr. Hafeez also worked with TL Ventures, a private equity fund with over $1 billion under management, and executed investment transactions in VerticalNet, Inc., and Traffic.com.
Prior to that, Mr. Hafeez was with Malcolm Pirnie, Inc., an architectural, civil and environmental engineering design company, where he designed renewable and clean energy systems and managed environmental infrastructure projects.
Mr. Hafeez received an MBA with a concentration in finance and private equity from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
He also holds bachelors and masters degrees in structural and environmental engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and Cornell University, respectively.