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Senior Advisor / Banking

Irtiaz Ahmad

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Location: New York, USA

Irtiaz Ahmad is Senior Advisor — Banking at Opie Capital. He is President of Sobina Advisors and Managing Partner of Sienyx Holdings, two New York-based vehicles he founded in 2026.

Irtiaz has spent two decades on Wall Street, most recently as Managing Director and Head of Digital Infrastructure at Solomon Partners, advising on M&A, divestitures, joint ventures, and capital raises across data centers, fiber, and macro towers.

Career arc

  • Managing Partner, Sienyx Holdings (Jan 2026 – present) — investment holding company partnering with family offices to invest in durable AI-enabled and AI-resilient platforms; access to over $2B in investable capital across debt and equity.
  • President, Sobina Advisors (Jan 2026 – present) — strategic advisory firm combining CFO, investment-banking, corporate-development, and strategy-consulting capabilities into a single integrated operating partner.
  • Managing Director and Head of Digital Infrastructure & Services, Solomon Partners (Apr 2021 – Aug 2025)
  • Director, Barclays (Jun 2014 – Apr 2021) — led Global Data Center, Cloud & Edge Infrastructure Sector Coverage in TMT investment banking.
  • Analyst / Associate, Waller Capital Partners (Nov 2010 – May 2014) — TMT digital infrastructure.

Selected deals or wins

  • United Fiber & Data sale to Lightpath — Solomon Partners served as exclusive financial advisor.
  • Pegasus Digital Mobility Corp business combination with The SCHMID Group — Solomon advised Pegasus on the SPAC combination.
  • Over $200B of transactions in digital infrastructure and technology across two decades on Wall Street.

Education

  • BS, International Economics (concentrations in Finance and Commerce) — Georgetown University
Irtiaz Ahmad