Qayyum has over 13 years of investment banking and private equity experience. He is currently working as a senior vice president in GCC based private equity fund in an investment bank in oil and gas industry. His role there is to source, evaluate and invest in private equity and execute M&A and joint venture opportunities in oil and gas industries in the Middle East region. Prior to this, Qayyum was a principal at Odeon Capital Partners, a $120 million private equity fund based in New York City and before in Bear Stearns' Mergers & Acquisitions and Leveraged Finance investment banking groups in New York where he was involved with multi-billion dollar transactions in retail, consumer products, technology and manufacturing industries.
While he was living in New York City from year 2000 through 2008, Qayyum was involved in many teaching and training engagements at university and corporate level. He was a guest speaker at New York University's Stern School of Business as well as taught a full-term MBA course at the Long Island University. His teaching experience include workshops at New York Private Equity Network the association which has over 500 active members.
