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

Jeffrey D. Hyslop
Managing Director

Rashid Lattouf
Managing Director

Shaun Fitzgibbon
Principal

Raheel Valiani
Operating Principal

Kevin Siedenburg
Head of Business Development

Daniel Franklin
Vice President

David Fusco
Vice President - Operations

Samraat Goel
Senior Associate

Bryan Godel
Associate

Luke Thompson
Associate

Ryan Zukoff
Associate

Russell McGahren-Clemens
Analyst

Peter Conzola
Business Development

Steve Burgermeister
Controller & Chief Compliance Officer
