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Omair@gearboxcap.com

Omair Sarwar

Founder

Omair is passionate about identifying the individual gears that are core to a business engine and leveraging a playbook refined over 15 years to guide businesses through a meaningful inflection point in growth and development across the vectors of Product, GTM, Partnerships and M&A.

Board Responsibilities (Current)

  • OfficeTimeline - Chairman

  • Greenshades - Chairman

  • Captify - Board Member (former Chairman)

  • Act! - Board Member

He was previously the Chairman of the Board at DaySmart Software and a Director at Devada.

Prior to Founding GearBox, Omair was at SFW Capital Partners leading the firm’s investment efforts in software and data. Prior to SFW, he was at Sverica International focused on investments in software and technology enabled services companies.

He earned his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University whilst juggling his responsibilities as captain of the Varsity Squash team.

Omair is an immigrant, born and raised in Pakistan, and the first member of his family to make it abroad. He is incredibly grateful for the scholarships that paved his way.

WHAT I LOVE

  • Values based partnerships with Founders and Teams

  • Architecting and fine tuning business engines

  • Surfing, snowboarding and anything that involves swinging racquets at balls

  • Immigrant stories

BHAGs

  • Build an incredible firm with a high performance culture and a diverse team that enjoys working together

  • Be a good partner to all the personal \ professional stakeholders in my life

  • Donate the entirety of my net worth (and retirement years) to giving back and enabling more stories like mine

  • Stay active, get tons of sunlight and have fun!

2023 OKRS

  • Establish back-end infrastructure and systems for Gearbox

  • Document all core processes, playbooks, checklists by 9/30

  • Value Creation of at least 30% across portfolio

  • Identify and execute 1 new platform investment by 12/31