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UIB
Capital relies on the US private equity experience of our professionals:
Tariq
Malhance
President
Tariq Malhance has overall management responsibility of UIB Capital's
principal investment advisory activities in North America. In addition,
he is responsible for UIB Capital's developing and advancing Unicorn
Investment Bank's complementary service offerings such as commercial
and investment banking, municipal and corporate debt offerings, and
other Shariah-compliant financial services. Malhance serves as
directory of UIB Capital portfolio companies Precision Time, Inc. Sun
Well Service, Inc. Sweetwater Dairy Pakistan and also serves as an
executive committee member of our portfolio company Ellington, LLC.
Malhance brings to UIB Capital his extensive experience and
relationships developed over the past 25 years in a series of positions
of increasing responsibility with the City of Chicago, including as
City Comptroller, three years as the City's First Deputy City
Treasurer, as Managing Deputy Comptroller for Debt and Asset
Management, and as Deputy Comptroller for Financial Policy.
During his career with the City, Malhance was tasked with managing its
cash flow, debt, and credit activities, and was responsible for
overseeing the issuance of approximately $40 billion in bonds to
support various City projects. Recently, he led the $1.8 billion
securitization of the seven-mile Chicago Skyway tollway to Macquarie
Bank of Australia and Cintra of Spain. This transaction was the first
of its kind in the U.S. He was also an active trustee member of four of
the City's pension funds, which together controlled about $13 billion.
Malhance received his B.S. in Commerce at the University of Karachi,
Pakistan, and subsequently received a B.S.B.A. in Finance from
Roosevelt University in Chicago. He also earned an M.B.A. from
Roosevelt, and went on to earn an M.A. in Economics from the University
of Illinois, Chicago. He has also completed his post-graduate
coursework for the Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis at the University of
Illinois, Chicago.
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Ross
Christianson
Principal
Ross Christianson joined UIB Capital in 2008, bringing to the firm a
20-year record of success in private equity investing and corporate
finance. With broad industry experience, he has completed transactions
in a range of industries including business services, healthcare,
marketing services, consulting, oil-field services, manufacturing, and
outsourcing. Christianson serves on the boards for Ellington, LLC;
Precision Time, Inc., and Sun Well Service, Inc.
Prior to joining UIB Capital, Christianson served as Director with Lake
Capital, a Chicago-based private equity group with $1.3 billion under
management. While there, he led or was involved with more than 20
investments deploying nearly $500 million of equity capital, and was
responsible for sourcing and evaluating investments, structuring
transactions, coordinating and managing due diligence, negotiating both
transaction and financing agreements, and monitoring portfolio company
performance. Additionally, Christianson managed Lake Capital's
relationships with lenders and mezzanine investors and developed unique
financing vehicles to optimize return on investment while mitigating
risk.
Before joining Lake Capital, Christianson spent eight years at GE
Capital's merchant banking group, where he sourced, closed and managed
leveraged debt and equity co-investments totaling over $500 million. He
began his career with GE Fanuc Automation as a financial analyst. He
earned his B.B.A. at the University of Iowa and his M.B.A. from the
Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
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Troy
Monthye
Vice President
Troy Monthye has experience in private equity investing, investment
banking, and management consulting, and has worked with companies
operating in diverse industries - technology, healthcare, energy,
branded consumer products, and financial services. Monthye is
responsible for originating and managing UIB's portfolio investments,
and serves on the boards of Open-Silicon and Sun Well Service, Inc.
Before joining UIB, Monthye worked in the corporate finance divisions
of American Express and Navigant Capital Advisors, providing
middle-market investment banking services to clients involved in merger
and acquisition activities, capital restructurings and debt workouts.
Previously, he worked in KPMG's Management Consulting practice. He
began his career as an analyst with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Advisors
in New York.
Monthye earned his B.S. from Arizona State University and his M.B.A.
from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. He also holds the
Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
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Christopher
E. Freeburg
Vice President
Chris Freeburg has a professional background in private equity,
strategy consulting, investment banking, and executive search. His
transaction experience includes investing in and advising companies in
the healthcare, technology, business services, and consumer products
industries. Freeburg is responsible for originating, executing, and
managing UIB Capital's portfolio investments, and serves on the board
of Victron, Inc.
Prior to joining UIB, Freeburg served as Vice President with Healthios,
Inc., a merchant banking boutique focused exclusively on healthcare,
where he was involved with over 20 projects totaling $3 billion in
enterprise value and $1 billion of equity capital. Before joining
Healthios, Freeburg was at TA Associates, a leading private equity firm
with $10 billion of capital under management. Over $120 million of
capital was deployed in the transactions he was involved in and he
invested in more than 30 deals while at TA. Prior to joining TA
Associates, he worked in Corporate Finance and Mergers &
Acquisitions with the investment bank of Robertson Stephens &
Company. While at Robertson Stephens, Freeburg worked as a critical
team member responsible for the firm's largest client at the time,
helping to raise over $1 billion of capital for the company in 24
months. In total, he participated in more than 20 closed transactions
during his tenure at Robertson Stephens.
Freeburg earned his B.A. at Stanford University and his M.B.A. from the
Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
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Sachin
Gupta
Vice President
Sachin Gupta has a background in private equity, operations, and
consulting. He has worked on investment transactions in North America
and globally, including in Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Gupta also has worked on the sell-side, having conducted M&A
advisory and consulting work for various Fortune 500 clients. Gupta
serves on the board for Ellington, LLC.
Prior to joining UIB, Gupta was an Investment Associate at Toucan
Capital, a leading U.S.-based investor in biotechnology and healthcare
services, where he worked on new growth equity and follow-on
investments as well as in portfolio monitoring. While at Toucan
Capital, he led efforts in emerging markets such as India and Thailand,
and assisted portfolio companies with several cross-border business
development initiatives.
Previously, Gupta served as an investment professional at VentureEast
in Hyderabad, India, and at IllinoisVENTURES in Chicago, IL. He also
spent time in the neurological group at Medtronic Inc. The co-founder
of PhysiSense LLC, a medical device company focused on post-stroke
rehabilitation, he is also co-founder of Uronistic Technologies, a
diagnostic product company focused on the elderly market.
Gupta earned his M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management
at Northwestern, his M.S. in Bioengineering from the University of
Illinois, and his B.A. in Economics from University of Michigan.
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Sam
Habbas
Director
Sam Habbas has served as a member of UIB Capital's Board of Directors
since its incorporation in July of 2004. He is presently a partner at
Al-Sarraf & Al-Ruwayeh, the largest law firm in Kuwait and one of
the largest in the Middle East. Habbas manages the firm's International
department, which is the largest such department in Kuwait. Habbas's
practice is focused primarily on corporate and commercial matters, and
he acts as legal counsel for several large multinational companies. He
has also acted as an arbitrator on a number of multinational
arbitrations.
Habbas received his B.A. with honors at the University of Santa Clara
and earned his J.D. at Boston College.
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Ikbal
Daredia
Director
Ikbal Daredia has over 20 years of experience in Islamic banking. Prior
to joining Unicorn, he was the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of
Noriba, UBS’s global Islamic platform for Shariah-compliant
products and services. Prior to his tenure at Noriba, Mr. Daredia was
the Global Head of Islamic Financial Services for four years with
ABN-Amro Bank in Bahrain. Mr. Daredia has originated and executed
Shariah-compliant cross-border transactions structured in accordance
with Islamic principles for sovereign entities and corporations in
Turkey, the GCC countries, the Philippines, India, Pakistan and the
United Kingdom. In 2007, he led the distribution efforts for two Sukuk
offerings issued on behalf of a prominent Saudi corporation, with a
total value of US$1.6 billion. He was also the Noriba project leader
for the first-ever US$750 million Exchangeable Sukuk for Khazanah,
Malaysia, and the first internationally rated corporate Sukuk for
Sarawak Corporate Sukuk Inc. (Malaysia), a US$350 million offering
which was jointly led by UBS Investment Bank and Noriba in 2004. Prior
to this, in 2001, Mr. Daredia worked on the Sukuk issue for Kumpulan
Guthrie, Malaysia. Mr. Daredia is an Associate of the Chartered
Institute of Bankers, England.
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