Leadership

Senior-led platform with institutional discipline.

Zakaas Capital is built around disciplined execution, institutional positioning, and direct leadership involvement across origination, credit oversight, investor engagement, and cross-border transaction development.

Leadership

Focused on execution, relationships, and institutional alignment.

Our model is intentionally senior-led. We prioritize direct engagement, disciplined credit review, and structured communication with investors, lenders, and strategic counterparties.

Managing Principal

Imran Qureshi

Founder & Managing Director

Leads platform strategy, origination, investor relationships, and cross-border transaction development across private credit, trade finance, and structured opportunities.

Focused on connecting institutional capital with real-world opportunities across the US, UAE, India, Bangladesh, and emerging markets, with direct principal involvement across mandates.

Contact: imran@zakaascapital.com

Credit & Risk

Institutional underwriting and risk discipline.

Our credit approach emphasizes disciplined assessment, transaction structure review, and alignment with institutional counterparty expectations.

Credit & Risk

Iftekhar

Head of Credit & Risk

Leads credit underwriting, transaction risk assessment, and structuring oversight across private credit and structured finance opportunities.

Brings prior experience from treasury functions within HSBC, supporting liquidity management, institutional risk frameworks, and disciplined capital structuring.

Investor Relations

Capital formation and institutional engagement.

Our investor relations function is built to support consistent communication, relationship development, and disciplined capital formation across institutional and strategic investors.

Investor Relations

Rizwan

Head of Investor Relations

Leads investor engagement and capital formation initiatives, managing relationships with institutional investors, family offices, and strategic capital partners.

Investor Relations

Alwin

Vice President – Investor Relations

Supports investor outreach, capital raising coordination, and relationship management, working closely with institutional and private capital partners.

Strategic Advisory & Origination

Regional access and proprietary opportunity flow.

Our advisory and origination relationships support access, regional connectivity, and selective sourcing across high-value mandates in the Middle East.

Middle East

Affiliated with: The Private Office of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Khalifa Bin Sultan Bin Shakhbout Al Nahyan

Strategic Advisor – Middle East

Provides strategic guidance on regional market access, investor relationships, and origination of institutional-grade opportunities across the UAE and broader GCC.

Supports strategic connectivity across leading regional institutions and private offices.

Zakaas Capital maintains a selective and disciplined approach to growth. We believe enduring platforms are built through execution quality, institutional alignment, and long-term relationships.
Operating Model

Built for credibility, not noise.

We intentionally present leadership in a concise and institutional format. The emphasis is on execution capability, credit discipline, investor alignment, and relationship quality rather than overstated biographies.