{"podcast":{"title":"Private Equity Fast Pitch","slug":"private-equity-fast-pitch-1135474","podcast_index_feed_id":1135474,"rss_url":"https://enorthstar.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.enorthstar.com/northstar-podcast.html","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/f/6/8/1/f681356ade63d87e16c3140a3186d450/Podcast_Headshots_.jpg","author":"Northstar","episode_count":199,"summary":"Consistent with all programs delivered by Northstar, \"Private Equity Fast Pitch\" podcasts are meaningful, insightful and provide actionable information from leaders in the Private Equity community that will help you connect with the speaker in an efficient way. Each Tuesday, Jeff Henningsen from Lockton will spend time talking with his friends in the private equity community while they share insight into their world. Similar to an introductory meeting, Private Equity and Investment Banking guests will talk about their firms, recent activities, target industries, desired acquisition profile or companies they are prepping for sale, advice to aspiring professionals and their \"closing pitch\". If you would like to be considered for a Private Equity Fast Pitch interview please email jhenningsen@lockton.com","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T00:17:22.622316+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/private-equity-fast-pitch-1135474"},"episode":{"title":"Omar Jaffrey - Palistar Capital","slug":"omar-jaffrey-palistar-capital","published_at":"2026-04-02T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/private-equity-fast-pitch-1135474/omar-jaffrey-palistar-capital","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/private-equity-fast-pitch-1135474","url":"https://enorthstar.libsyn.com/omar-jaffrey-palistar-capital","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/enorthstar/Omar_Jaffrey_Final.mp3?dest-id=624275","summary":"Omar Jaffrey has been involved in technology, media and telecommunications (\"TMT\") investments, mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships, public and private capital raises, restructuring and bankruptcies for over 30 years. Mr. Jaffrey founded Palistar Capital (formerly, Melody Investment Advisers, \"Palistar\") in 2019 as a specialist digital infrastructure investor as his go-forward investment platform and created Symphony Wireless, an affiliated easements origination platform (\"Symphony\"). The team successfully raised a $2 billion dedicated digital infrastructure fund at the end of 2021, has built out a specialist team with deep investment and operating expertise and has invested in a number of macro tower investments including Harmoni Towers, Parallel Infrastructure, CTI Towers, and an easements and tower portfolio originated by Symphony. Prior to Palistar, Mr. Jaffrey co-founded Melody Capital Partners (\"Melody\") in 2012 where he was also a Managing Partner. The team at Melody raised two fund families – a Structured Credit platform with $1 billion assets under management (\"AUM\") and a digital infrastructure platform with $700 million AUM (\"Melody Wireless Infrastructure\"). Mr. Jaffrey crafted the strategy, built Melody Wireless Infrastructure as its CEO and successfully exited Melody Wireless Infrastructure in 2021. Melody is now actively harvesting its remaining investments and is no longer making new investments or fundraising. Prior to Melody, Mr. Jaffrey was a Managing Director of UBS Investment Bank, most recently serving as Americas Co-head of the Special Situations Group. Mr. Jaffrey was an advisor to some of the leading telecommunications and technology companies globally covering over 50 global clients in the TMT space for their strategic and financi…","meta_description":"Omar Jaffrey has been involved in technology, media and telecommunications (\"TMT\") investments, mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships, public a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2746,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/private-equity-fast-pitch-1135474/episodes/omar-jaffrey-palistar-capital/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/private-equity-fast-pitch-1135474/omar-jaffrey-palistar-capital.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}