Nazar Massouh

Nazar Massouh serves as Chief Executive Officer, co-Founder, and co-Managing Partner and is responsible for leading all firm activities. Nazar is Chair of the Investment Committee, Chair of the Management Committee and Chair of the Diversity Committee.

Prior to co-founding Orion in 2015, Nazar played a key role in establishing a credit investment strategy and spent four years as portfolio manager of Energy Capital Partners Mezzanine Opportunities Fund, an $805 million private equity fund with a similar investment strategy to Orion’s Infra Credit business. Prior to that, Nazar spent seven years at Goldman Sachs developing and implementing fixed income and commodity financing solutions for a broad range of energy companies, most recently as Managing Director in their Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities Division. Nazar started his career at NRG Energy in power plant development and project finance, participating in over $6 billion of energy projects and rising to the position of Assistant Treasurer and Head of Project Finance. Subsequently at Beal Bank in Dallas, Texas, he originated and structured nearly $1 billion in energy project finance mezzanine and debt investments.

Nazar received a B.S. in international business and mathematics from Aquinas College magna cum laude and a Master of International Management with distinction from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.