Omer Masud

Head of Sponsor Finance Origination
New York

Omer Masud is managing director, head of sponsor finance origination at Raymond James. Mr. Masud was previously the head of origination and capital markets at Onex Falcon as well as president of the Onex Falcon BDC and member of the senior debt investment committee. He helped lead the development of the firm’s senior strategy and managed sponsor, advisor and partner relationships for the entire firm. Prior to Onex, he was a managing director in the Financial Sponsors Group at Macquarie Capital, where he was responsible for managing relationships with private equity clients. In prior roles at UBS and Citi’s sponsor coverage groups his responsibilities included delivering the firm’s leveraged finance, equity and M&A franchises to private equity clients and their portfolio companies. Prior to that, Mr. Masud worked at Bear Stearns in the Acquisition and Leveraged Finance Group, where he was responsible for structuring and executing middle market private equity and leveraged finance transactions.
Mr. Masud serves on the Alumni Board and Finance Advisory Board of the Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University. He received an MBA and an MS in electrical engineering from the Ohio State University and a BS in electrical engineering from Florida Institute of Technology.

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