Nadeem Syed joined Vista Equity Partners in 2018 and is Head of Value Creation and a member of the private equity Flagship team.

Nadeem serves as a member of Vista’s Executive Committee, the firm’s governing and decision-making body for matters affecting its overall management and strategic direction, and Vista’s Private Equity Management Committee, the firm’s decision-making body for matters affecting Vista’s overall private equity platform. He also serves on the Investment Committee for VistaOne, Vista’s evergreen private equity vehicle. Nadeem currently sits on the boards of Alegeus, Allvue Systems, KnowBe4 (formerly NASDAQ: KNBE), PlanSource and Securonix.

Prior to Vista, Nadeem was CEO of Finastra (formerly Misys), a Vista company and a leading provider of banking, capital markets, investment management and risk solutions to financial institutions around the world. Before Finastra, Nadeem was COO of SumTotal Systems, a former Vista company, where he led the company’s strategic initiatives, overseeing services, support, engineering, product management and cloud operations. Prior to SumTotal Systems, Nadeem spent 19 years in multiple senior leadership roles at Oracle.