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Founding Partner
Omar A. Sawaf
Omar is the Founding Partner and CEO of Yellowstone Capital Partners LLC, a boutique merchant bank and venture capital firm based in Houston Texas. Prior to co-founding YCP in 1993 with his brother Bashar Sawaf, Omar was the President of Capital Guidance, the US subsidiary of a global investment group with core operations in real estate, international trade & distribution and private equity.
Harvard Business School
MBA
Ohio State University
B.S., Industrial and Systems Engineering
managing partner
Southern Methodist University
MBA
B.B.A., Finance
Sami Sawaf
Sami serves as the Managing Partner at Yellowstone Capital Partners LLC, overseeing all aspects of the firm's operations and strategic initiatives.
Previously, Sami was in the FTI Corporate Finance/Restructuring practice based in Dallas, TX where he focused his time and efforts on the energy, retail, and consumer goods sector. Sami began his career at White River Energy, an energy hedge fund, and then worked at MENA Solar Energy, a renewable energy startup
partner
Randy Burns
Columbia Business School
MBA
University of Arkansas
B.B.A.
Randy is a Partner at Yellowstone Capital Partners, LLC. Randy’s formative private equity experience was in the operator-founded, -funded, and -led environment of Highlander Partners in Dallas. Randy’s experience spans all aspects of the private equity investing process. He has built out sourcing capabilities, evaluated new platform investments, executed transactions and refinancings, led add-on acquisition efforts, and worked with portfolio companies on strategic and operational initiatives.
Randy began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst at Stephens Inc., his hometown investment bank, where he focused on the building products and construction, chemicals, and transportation and logistics sectors.
Operating partner
Harvard Business School
MBA
Hampden Sydney College
B.A.
Rick Harris
Rick is an Operating Partner at Yellowstone Capital Partners, LLC, focusing on growing the firm’s food and beverage portfolio. He also serves as President and CEO of Chung’s Gourmet Foods, the nation’s leading branded, frozen Asian Appetizer company, headquartered in Houston, Texas.