Reaz Islam

Reaz Islam is an entrepreneur and a seasoned investment/financial services professional with 25 years of leadership, innovation, restructuring, business development and execution expertise across various public and private markets. In addition to leading his own companies, Reaz serves as a senior advisor to the leadership team for public and private companies in the U.S. and abroad in such industries as Digital Media, FinTech, Gaming, Packaging, and Healthcare. In this capacity, Reaz oversees and guides strategic investments, M&A, due diligence, execution, integration and related financial matters.

Throughout his career, Reaz has strived to create innovative, ground-breaking products to allow his target customers to solve key challenges, increase transparency and fairness. Uncompromising tenacity coupled with leadership and management skills have allowed Reaz to break new grounds, regardless of obstacles and traditional thinking. For instance, Eclipse Funding, founded in 1999, was the first of its kind to resolve liquidity and active management changes for senior secured debt fund investors. The Municipal Arbitrage fund launched in 2002 was first fund that addressed high absolute returns for tax sensitive customers, leveraging the proprietary investment strategy Citi had mastered since the early 1990s. Reaz’s innovation continued as he successfully executed alpha strategies and managed highlyscalable funds in South Asia utilizing macro, fundamental and quantitative tools calibrated for emerging and frontier markets. More recently, Reaz is moving forward along with his lieutenants with his lifelong dream of democratizing financial markets globall arming individuals and institutions to take control back from Wall Street to Main Street, leveraging quantitative tools, advanced analytics, machine learning, cutting-edge digital social media tools.