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Our Leadership

Every Inaya Advisory mandate is reviewed and run by the four people on this page. The people a client meets on the first call are the people who take the raise to market.

David Hunter

David Hunter

Senior Advisor

David has spent close to forty years in institutional capital, most of it on the allocator's side of the table. He served as Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer of the North Dakota Retirement and Investment Office, where assets grew from about US$8 billion to nearly US$20 billion, and later as Chief Investment Officer of the US$40 billion Texas Municipal Retirement System.

At Inaya, David reviews each new situation with Anas Ansar and leads the institutional conversations on a mandate himself. He reads a raise the way an investment committee will read it, and he tells a manager early when it is not ready.

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The allocator's chair, not the seller's

~40

Years in institutional capital, much of it deciding which managers receive pension money.

2

US public pensions served as Chief Investment Officer: TMRS and the North Dakota Retirement and Investment Office.

US$40B

Texas Municipal Retirement System, with two consecutive years of top-quartile returns.

US$7B+

In pension assets directed at HSBC North America, after earlier roles at Citicorp and SMBC.

Where his relationships sit

  • US public pensions

    The state and municipal plans, starting with the Texas systems David knows from his time as a CIO.

  • Investment consultants

    The firms that advise pension boards on which managers to hire, and whose view decides most allocations.

  • Endowments and foundations

    Institutional allocators that move on the same diligence standards as public plans.

  • Family offices

    Single and multi-family offices in North America, Europe and the Gulf that follow institutional conviction.

What David does on a mandate

  • Reads the raise as an allocator

    Before any introduction, he reviews the deck, the documents and the terms against what an investment committee will ask, so the gaps are fixed before they cost a meeting.

  • Makes the first introductions himself

    The first introductions come from David directly, to allocators he knows, with more as the raise progresses.

  • Stays in the room

    He remains in the key conversations through to terms, so an investor hears the case from someone who has sat on their side.

  • Says early when it is not ready

    If a raise is not ready for institutional capital, the manager hears it from David first, with what needs to change.

Named among the ISS Power 100 Chief Investment Officers in 2023. Career figures are from David Hunter's earlier roles and are not transactions of Inaya Advisory.

Anas Ansar

Anas Ansar

Managing Partner

Anas runs each mandate from the first review of a raise to its final close. He leads the origination of new mandates with fund managers, sponsors and founders raising equity, and reviews every new situation with David Hunter before the firm gives its answer.

Once a mandate begins, he directs the deck, the data room and the terms review before any investor sees the raise, then runs it in market through investor meetings and diligence to each close. He sets the scope of each engagement in writing and signs it on the firm's behalf.

Shayan Mohammed

Shayan Mohammed

Managing Director

Shayan leads the growth of the firm and its investor coverage across North America, Europe and the Gulf. He decides which investors each mandate reaches, and in what order, so that a raise goes first to the capital most likely to commit.

He builds how Inaya reaches investors at institutional scale, so that the relationships opened on one mandate carry into the next. He also sets where the firm's coverage points next, before any introduction is made on a client's behalf.

Abbas Chothia

Abbas Chothia

Client Advisor

Abbas brings over two decades of experience across principal-level advisory, deal execution and company building. He has founded and operated businesses himself, and brings the commercial judgment of someone who has sat in the same seat as the principals he advises.

He leads every client conversation at Inaya, from the first call to engagement. He reads what a client sends before the call, and joins David Hunter on the proposed approach call that sets out how the raise would be positioned and which capital comes first.

How we work together

A mandate moves through the four of us in one order, and the same people see it through.

The first conversation

Thirty minutes by video with Abbas Chothia, Client Advisor, held in confidence. He reads what you send before the call, and the call covers what is being raised, the timeline, the constraints and what has been tried.

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Senior review

David Hunter and Anas Ansar review every new situation before the firm gives its answer. You have that answer within 48 to 72 hours of the review, and when the answer is no, we say so and give the reasons.

The proposed approach

Abbas Chothia and David Hunter set out how the raise would be positioned, which capital we go to first and in what order, and how the engagement is structured. Scope and terms are confirmed in writing before any work begins.

The mandate

Anas Ansar runs the raise in market, through investor meetings and diligence to each close. Shayan Mohammed decides which investors it reaches and in what order. The relationships opened in the raise are kept working after it.

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Note: The people you speak with before an engagement is signed are the people who run it.