Team
The co-founders of Staple Street Capital, Stephen D. Owens and Hootan Yaghoobzadeh, are veterans of The Carlyle Group and Cerberus Capital Management, respectively, and first worked together in Carlyle's US Buyout Group starting in 1998. Our team has completed over 100 transactions involving complicated corporate carve outs, operational turnarounds, management led buyouts, public-to-privates, restructurings, refinancings and/or recapitalizations.
Stephen D. Owens
Co-Founder

Hootan Yaghoobzadeh
Co-Founder

Shaun Fitzgibbon
Managing Director

Jeffrey D. Hyslop
Managing Director

Rashid Lattouf
Managing Director

Kevin Siedenburg
Managing Director & Head of Business Development

Michael Becker
Principal

Michael Koichopolos
Principal

Ian Boyd
Vice President

Thomas Chung
Vice President

Kevin Weinstein
Vice President

Ryan Zukoff
Vice President

Russell McGahren-Clemens
Senior Associate

Brandon Amtzis
Associate

Justin Campos
Associate

Zack Gaynor
Associate

Harry Gould
Associate

Conrad Russell
Associate

Dean Sobel
Associate

Andrew Hetzel
Business Development Senior Associate

Steve Burgermeister
Chief Financial Officer
