Our Founder

Omkar has over 14 years’ experience in the financial services industry and significant experience managing long/short strategies at leading global and Australian hedge funds. Prior to founding Opal, he was most recently a Portfolio Manager and Managing Director at Point72 Asset Management, which manages more than US$28bn, and immediately prior to that a Portfolio Manager at multi-award winning hedge fund, Regal Funds Management, which manages more than US$3bn. Prior to this, Omkar was a Partner and Sector Head at Watermark Funds Management. Previously, Omkar was an Equity Research Analyst at Credit Suisse. He began his career at KPMG in the Private Enterprise division.

Omkar is both a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) Charterholder and received his Bachelor of Commerce with High Distinction from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has served on the UNSW Business School Alumni Advisory Board (2014 – 2020) and the Corporate Governance Board of the Lincoln Institute of Higher Education (2020 – 2021), and was also the Chair of its Finance, Audit and Risk Committee.