Bio

Omar Diaz is a Managing Director advising clients primarily in the Industrials, Chemicals and Advanced Materials Industries. Omar has approximately 30 years of investment banking, management consulting and project engineering experience. Omar’s clients have included public, private equity-held and family owned businesses. His transaction experience includes M&A advisory, take-over defense advisory, fairness opinion mandates, capital raising and financial restructuring transactions on both the debtor and creditor sides. Previously, Omar was Head of Chemicals at Seaport Global, Head of Industrials at Dresner Partners, a Managing Director focused on Industrials at Allegiance Capital and Head of Chemicals at Houlihan Lokey. Earlier in his investment banking career, he was a Vice President at Acquest Advisors, an Associate in J.P. Morgan’s Mergers & Acquisitions group and an Associate in Bank of America’s Energy Corporate Finance Group. In addition, he was a Senior Consultant at Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group and a project engineer for Amoco. Omar has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University. He graduated from the E.W. Kelley Graduate School of Business at Indiana University with an MBA in Finance.