Hooman Yazhari
Hooman Yazhari
Speaker
co-founder and Executive Chairman

Mobility Capital Group

United States

Hooman Yazhari has spent the last 20 years of his senior career as a CEO, senior executive and board member, leading transformations of multiple enterprises in aviation, aircraft finance and leasing, transportation and logistics, biotechnology, and telecoms. Hooman’s leadership has encompassed crucial times in life cycles of private as well as public companies and has included managing out of distress, strategic and operational renewals, rapid organic and M&A led growth, and executing IPOs and other shareholder exits. Hooman stepped in at difficult times for Voyager Aviation Holdings, Waypoint Leasing, CHC, Bristow, Speedcast, ILFC and Gategroup, working with extraordinary teams to transform, grow and successfully exit each enterprise.

Hooman is also the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Mobility Capital Group, an impact aligned provider of credit and leasing capital to the next generation of technology led transportation leading towards sustainability. Hooman holds a BA in Jurisprudence from Oxford University and a Masters in Corporate and Commercial Law from the London School of Economics.  

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Sessions

  • What are the key cost pressures affecting weaker airlines?
  • What outsized returns are available in the riskiest part of the market?
  • Are there macro trends that are currently being mispriced?
  • What are the implications on investors of airlines filing for bankruptcy?
Greg Chianetta
Director, Alternative Asset Advisory, Kroll
Hooman Yazhari
co-founder and Executive Chairman, Mobility Capital Group
Yves Germeaux
Head of Corporate Finance and Aviation Finance, Atoz
Diederik Lindhout
Chief Operations Officer & Founding Partner , Arena Aviation Capital
Moderator
Emily Wicker
Partner, Clifford Chance