Murtaza Moochhala

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Biography

Mr. Murtaza Moochhala served as Chief Operating Officer & Chief Financial Officer at Global Synergy Acquisition. He is a Managing Director and a member of the Technology Services Private Markets investment team. He is the founder and a managing partner of MSZ Capital since 2018, where he serves as an advisor and board member of technology-enabled service businesses. Since 2001, Mr. Moochhala has focused on the technology-enabled service sector in roles such as investment banker, private equity investor and board member. From 2013 to 2018, Mr. Moochhala was a managing director at The Rohatyn Group. Prior to that, he was at CVCI Private Equity from 2005 to 2013, where he was a partner. From 2005 to 2018, Mr. Moochhala was exclusively focused on investing in IT Services and Business Process Outsourcing companies and was involved in transactions totaling approximately US$1 billion of invested equity. Mr. Moochhala was involved in multiple acquisitions of IT Services and BPO solutions providers, including Keane International, Ness Technologies, Receivable Management Services, SourceHov and iQor Holdings. He was on the boards of Ness Technologies, Receivable Management Services, SourceHov and iQor Holdings, and is currently on the board of Astreya. From 2002 to 2004, he was a vice president at Caxton-Iseman Capital, a private equity firm. From 1996 to 2002, he was in the investment banking division at Goldman Sachs. From 2001 to 2002, he was the head of the US IT Services sector in the Technology Group with coverage responsibilities of the large diversified IT service companies, Indian offshore service companies and US system integration companies and was involved in initial public offerings, secondary public equity offerings and mergers and acquisitions transactions. He holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.