KC Hazarika

KC Hazarika is a Managing Director in Stifel’s Consumer & Retail Investment Banking Group focusing on consumer, food & beverage, agribusiness, and e-commerce companies. KC has more than 15 years of investment banking and private equity investment experience and is a specialist in mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, and financings. He has participated in transactions ranging from growth equity financings to spinoffs of Fortune 500 divisions and has completed numerous M&A transactions with leading middle market financial sponsors.

Prior to joining Stifel, KC was a Managing Director at BB&T Capital Markets. Previously, he was a Director at Platinum Equity, a $19 billion global private equity firm, where he worked on middle market buyouts and portfolio operations in the U.S. and Europe. His previous experience includes serving as a Partner at Plainview Capital, a hedge fund focused on undervalued growth companies operating within the consumer and retail sectors. He also worked at Morgan Stanley & Co., has board member and operating experience, and was the former COO/CFO of a venture-backed consumer products business.

KC holds a B.A. in Economics from Boston University.