Omeed Malik

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Farvahar Partners

Omeed Malik is the Founder and CEO of Farvahar Partners, a boutique merchant bank which invests partner capital into growth businesses and acts as a liquidity provider of private placements on behalf of companies and institutional investors. 

Prior to starting his own firm, Omeed was a Managing Director and the Global Head of the Hedge Fund Advisory Business at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.  Omeed was also the founder and head of the Emerging Manager Program within the Global Equities business. In this capacity, Omeed was charged with selecting both established and new hedge funds for the firm to partner with and oversaw the allocation of financing/prime brokerage, capital strategy, business consulting and talent introduction resources.

Before joining Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Omeed was a Senior Vice President at MF Global where he helped reorganize the firm's distribution platform globally and developed execution and clearing relationships with institutional clients. 

An experienced financial services professional and securities attorney, Omeed was a corporate lawyer at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP working on transactional matters in the capital markets, corporate governance, private equity and bankruptcy fields. 

Omeed has also worked in the United States Senate and House of Representatives.