1789 TEAM
Founder & President
Omeed Malik
Omeed Malik is the Founder and CEO of Farvahar Partners, a boutique investment bank and broker/dealer which acts as an advisor and liquidity provider to high growth venture backed companies and institutional investors. Omeed is also the Chairman and CEO of Colombier Acquisition Corp II, a publicly traded Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) listed on the NYSE and was the Chairman and CEO of Colombier Acquisition Corp I, that successfully merged with Public Square Holdings.
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Prior to starting his own firm, Omeed was a Managing Director and the Global Head of the Hedge Fund Advisory Business at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Omeed was also the founder and head of the Emerging Manager Program within the Global Equities business. In this capacity, Omeed was charged with selecting both established and new hedge funds for the firm to partner with and oversaw the allocation of financing/prime brokerage, capital strategy, business consulting and talent introduction resources.
Before joining Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Omeed was a Senior Vice President at MF Global where he helped reorganize the firm’s distribution platform globally and developed execution and clearing relationships with institutional clients.
An experienced financial services professional and securities attorney, Omeed was a corporate lawyer at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP working on transactional matters in the capital markets, corporate governance, private equity and bankruptcy fields.
Omeed has also worked in the United States Senate and House of Representatives. Omeed received a JD, with Honors, from Emory Law School (where he serves on the Advisory Board) and a BA in Philosophy and Political Science, Cum Laude, from Colgate University. He holds Series 7, 63, 3, 79 and 24 registrations. Omeed is a minority owner of The Daily Caller and was a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Founder & CIO
Christopher Buskirk
Chris has founded, built, and successfully sold multiple finance businesses including in insurance, reinsurance, specialty lending, and tax-credit financing. He is the founder and principal of Buskirk Capital, a family investment firm which led to the formation of 1789 Capital where he is co-founder and Chief Investment Officer. For over 15 years he has been a successful investor in growth stages companies with particular interest and experience in financial services, DeFi/Crypto, defense tech, reindustrialization and media.
He is also the co-founder with Vice President-Elect JD Vance of The Rockbridge Network, an organization of leading founders, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, investors, and families working together to build new institutions that will increase American security and prosperity and inaugurate the next American Golden Age. He is an author and frequent speaker having written for The New York Times, the Washington Post, and others and speaking in variety of formats ranging from The Aspen Ideas Festival to a lecture in Brasilia to the Brazilian Foreign Service.
He is a graduate of Claremont-McKenna College, an avid outdoorsman, and sought out speaker. He is the author of “American & The Art of the Possible: Restoring National Vitality In An Age of Decay” (Encounter Books: 2023), a book that describes the problems undermining American prosperity and, more important, describing some ideas about how to restore American growth and sustainable, broadly shared affluence.
Donald Trump Jr.
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Donald Trump, Jr. serves as an Executive Vice President of Development Acquisitions at The Trump Organization.
Since 2024, Mr. Trump has served as Director of Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. (NASDAQ: DJT) and as a Director at Public Square Holdings Inc. (NYSE: PSQH). Mr. Trump directs new project acquisition and development for The Trump
Organization worldwide. Mr. Trump actively oversees The Trump Organization’s current and new property portfolio, which contains over 70 projects. Mr. Trump is involved in all aspects of real estate development, from deal evaluation, analysis and pre-development planning to construction, branding, marketing, operations, sales and leasing. Mr. Trump is an accomplished and sought-after speaker and has spoken extensively throughout the United States and has given keynote speeches internationally, notably in Dubai and India.
Mr. Trump received his Bachelor’s degree in Finance and Real Estate from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania.
Blake Masters
Board of Advisors
Blake Masters is an entrepreneur and investor. After graduating from Stanford and Stanford Law School, Blake co-founded a successful software startup called Judicata. In 2014, he co-authored the #1 New York Times bestseller Zero to One. Having sold more than 4 million copies, it’s the world’s most popular book on startups and venture capital. In 2015 Blake became President of the Thiel Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes science and innovation. From 2018 to 2022, Blake was Chief Operating Officer at Thiel Capital, an investment firm that specializes in the technology sector, where he helped grow assets under management by billions of dollars. Blake was Arizona’s Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2022 and lives in Arizona with his wife and three boys.
Jordan Cohen
COO
Jordan Cohen is a Partner at Farvahar Partners,a boutique investment bank and broker/dealer which acts as an advisor and liquidity provider to high growth venture backed companies and institutional investors. He is also the Chief Operating Officer of Colombier Acquisition Corp II, a SPAC that trades on the New York Stock Exchange under symbol: CLBR
Prior to joining Farvahar, Jordan was the Managing Director of Sierra Bonita Holdings, a Los Angeles based family office whereby Jordan was responsible for evaluating, structuring, and managing a multi-strategy portfolio concentrated in TMT and Consumer verticals. An entrepreneur by nature, Jordan has over 20 years of investment, legal and strategic brand building experience. He has invested in, and been an advisor to, companies in the consumer, technology, web3 and wellness industries.
Jordan was a corporate lawyer at Weil Gotshal & Manges. He received a JD with Honors, from Emory University School of Law and a BSM in Finance, Magna Cum Laude from Tulane University.
Joe Voboril
Head of Research
Joe Voboril is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Farvahar Partners, a boutique investment bank and broker/dealer which acts as an advisor and liquidity provider to high growth venture backed companies and institutional investors. He is also the Chief Financial Officer of Colombier Acquisition Corp II, a SPAC that trades on the New York Stock Exchange under symbol: CLBR.
Prior to Farvahar and Colombier, Joe spent 15 years at hedge funds in roles of investment analyst, portfolio manager, and Chief Investment Officer. He has made hundreds of public market investments to then construct and risk-manage equity portfolios. Joe has actively managed strategies spanning from multi-strategy, equity long/short, and short-only equities.
At Bank of America Joe co-created the Hedge Fund Advisory group, led the bank’s Separately Managed Account (SMA) Initiative, and managed the internal vetting effort of investment managers for Bank of America’s exclusive Emerging Manager Program.
Joe is a graduate of Colgate University with a double-major in Philosophy (honors) and Political Science.