Omar Simmons

Bio

Omar joined Windjammer in March 2008 from Reliant Equity Investors, a $120 million private equity fund where he was a co-founder and managing director at the firm. Omar led several control-buyout transactions at Reliant and was responsible for sourcing, analyzing, structuring and managing multiple portfolio investments. Prior to Reliant, Omar was a Senior Associate at McCown De Leeuw & Co, a $1.2 billion middle market buyout fund, where he played a lead role in identifying and evaluating potential deals as well as negotiating complex financings for new investments and the disposition of existing portfolio investments. His other middle market private equity experience includes working at Summit Partners as an Associate and Littlejohn & Co. as a Summer Associate. Omar also worked at Marakon Associates, as a Senior Analyst, Physicians Quality Care, a venture-backed health care services company, and Lotus Development. Omar received an AB from The Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy at Princeton University and earned his MBA, with honors, from Harvard Business School, where he was a Toigo Fellow.