Reza Sabahi

Chief Investment Officer at Tellaro

Speaker

Mr. Reza Sabahi is the Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Tellaro Capital Partners, an alternative credit platform based in Los Angeles focused on originating and managing senior secured loans to lower middle-market companies. With over two decades of experience in direct lending, leveraged finance, and investment banking, Reza has underwritten more than $5 billion in credit facilities, navigating a broad range of capital structures, industries, and economic cycles.

Prior to founding Tellaro, he served as Senior Managing Director and Head of the Commercial Capital direct lending platform at East West Bank (NASDAQ: EWBC), where he built the platform from the ground up and led all aspects of origination, underwriting, and portfolio management. Reza started his corporate lending career at Wells Fargo Capital Finance (FKA Foothill Capital), structuring and managing asset-based and cash-flow financings for sponsor-backed and middle-market borrowers. He holds an MBA from the University of California (Irvine), completed post-graduate studies at Harvard Business School, in lives in Los Angeles with his wife, daughter, and son.