Vanterra Capital Team

Mr. Azimi is the Founder and Managing Partner of Vanterra and is a lead member on deal sourcing, fundraising, and overall management of the firm. Mr. Azimi is a senior investment manager with over 25 years of experience in principal investing. Mr. Azimi has significant expertise in identifying, evaluating, and executing investment opportunities and direct investment funds. Prior to founding Vanterra, Mr. Azimi was a Principal at GoldPoint Partners (formerly known as New York Life Capital Partners), a $14 billion private equity firm. With GoldPoint Partners, Mr. Azimi developed and spearheaded the “Small and Emerging Manager” seeding strategy, an initiative designed to build smaller and specialized investment funds in the United States, Europe, and emerging markets. Prior to that, Mr. Azimi was an Associate at Lightyear Capital, a multi-billion-dollar control-oriented private equity fund as well as an Associate in the private equity group of UBS/PaineWebber Capital. Mr. Azimi began his career as an investment banking Analyst at PaineWebber, Inc. Mr. Azimi received his B.S. with dual concentrations in Finance and International Business with Honors from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. He earned his MBA as a Beta Gamma Sigma graduate from Columbia Business School.