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September 19, 2023

Star Mountain Capital Adds Former Blackstone Director, Michael Goldstein to Portfolio Management Team

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September 14, 2023

Star Mountain Capital Hires Former BlackRock Managing Director, Amon Johnson

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June 21, 2023

Star Mountain Capital Adds Longtime Goldman Sachs Veteran, MaryAnn Stauffer, as Managing Director

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June 20, 2023

Star Mountain Capital is Proud to Participate in the Children’s Cancer Center 8th Annual Gelatin Plunge

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April 26, 2023

Star Mountain Capital Hires Former Intech Investment Management Managing Director, Leanne Schmitt, as Managing Director

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April 18, 2023

Star Mountain Capital Named One of Crain’s New York Business 2022 Best Places to Work for the Fourth Year in a Row

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April 4, 2023

Star Mountain Capital Named One of Pensions & Investments 2022 Best Places to Work in Money Management for the Fourth Year in a Row

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November 16, 2022

Austin Ericson, Former Assistant General Counsel at $50+ Billion AUM H.I.G. Capital, Joins Star Mountain Capital as Legal Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer

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November 3, 2022

Star Mountain Capital Adds T. J. Della Pietra, Former Global Head of Citi Holdings, as a Senior Advisor

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April 21, 2026

Star Mountain Capital Named “Lower Mid-Market Lender of the Year” by Alternative Credit Investor

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March 19, 2026

George Zahringer, Operationally Focused Private Equity Investor with 20+ Years of Experience, Joins Star Mountain Capital as Strategic Portfolio Partner

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March 11, 2026

Christopher “Chris” Babcock, Former ~25 Year Director from BNY Mellon Asset Management, Joins Star Mountain Capital as Managing Director

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February 26, 2026

Angela Rodell, Former CEO of Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation, Joins Star Mountain Capital as Senior Advisor

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February 24, 2026

Michael Karangelen, Former CEO of North America for Investindustrial ($10+bn AUM PE Firm), Joins Star Mountain Capital as Member of the Firm’s Executive and Investment Committees

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February 19, 2026

Star Mountain Capital Announces Final Close of Its Oversubscribed 2nd SBIC Fund at a Program Optimized Level of $286 Million

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February 18, 2026

Paul Efron, Former General Partner of Goldman Sachs & Co, Joins Star Mountain Capital as Senior Advisor

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February 5, 2026

Donald Raymond, Former Chief Investment Strategist at Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), Joins Star Mountain Capital as Senior Advisor

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December 10, 2025

Star Mountain Capital Recognized by Crain’s New York Business and Pensions & Investments as One of the Best Places to Work in 2025

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May 14, 2026

Why the U.S. Lower Middle-Market Might Be Your Best Diversifier with Leading Global Economist and Harvard Business School Professor Josh Lerner

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April 30, 2026

Accessing the Lower Middle-Market with Leading Global Economist and Harvard Business School Professor Josh Lerner

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September 25, 2025

Star Mountain Insights: Brett Hickey and David Javdan on the QSBS Program Expansion

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September 12, 2025

Lower Middle-Market Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

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December 5, 2024

Secondaries Roundtable Sees Boom Continuing ‘This is not a market moment.’

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October 4, 2024

The Rise Of Private Credit Secondaries

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November 11, 2024

Building Resilient Portfolios with Former 3M President, Dennis Duerst

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October 21, 2024

TresVista Talk with Brett Hickey: Building Business Success and Navigating Economic Trends

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October 8, 2024

Star Mountain Capital 2024 Internship Program Recap

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August 16, 2024

Star Mountain Capital’s STAR Values – It’s who we are!

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April 25, 2024

Star Mountain Capital Founder & CEO Brett Hickey Sits Down with Former Chief Investment Officer of the Employees Retirement System of Texas to Discuss How the Lower Middle-Market can be a Good Complement to a Portfolio

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March 8, 2024

Star Mountain Capital Founder & CEO, Brett Hickey, Sits Down with Former Co-Founder of LBC Credit Partners, Chris Calabrese, to Discuss the Role of a Challenger on an Investment Committee.

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December 18, 2023

Star Mountain Capital Founder & CEO, Brett Hickey, Sits Down with Chief Investment Officer at New York State Nurses Association Pension Plan & Benefits Fund, Dylan Tate, to Discuss How Private Credit Can Be Well Positioned to Provide Capital Protection…

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October 25, 2023

Star Mountain Capital Founder & CEO Brett Hickey Sits Down with David Markson, Evercore Managing Director, to Discuss how Secondary Investments Complements a Portfolio

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October 24, 2023

Star Mountain Capital Founder & CEO Brett Hickey Sits Down with Former President and CEO of Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Robert Kaplan to discuss the State of the U.S. Economy

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February 7, 2024

Star Mountain Named One of Crain’s New York Business 2023 Best Places to Work for the 5th Year in a Row

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January 25, 2024

Star Mountain Recognized as One of GrowthCap’s Top Private Debt Firms of 2023

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March 24, 2022

Star Mountain Capital Named a 2021 Winner of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in NYC Program

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March 5, 2021

Star Mountain Capital Portfolio Company, NSC, Awarded BAE System’s Top Ship Repair Suppliers for 2020

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February 10, 2021

Star Mountain Capital Named a 2020 Winner of the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation Program

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December 22, 2020

Private Debt Investor selects Star Mountain Capital as a finalist for 2020 Junior Lender of the Year

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March 11, 2020

Star Mountain Capital Named One of Crain’s 2019 Best Places to Work in NYC

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December 20, 2019

Star Mountain Capital Named One of Pensions & Investments 2019 Best Places to Work

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May 24, 2021

Star Mountain Capital Founder & CEO, Brett Hickey, on Seeking Alpha in Private Equity, Private Credit and Secondaries at the 31st Annual TEXPERS Conference

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May 24, 2021

Star Mountain Capital Founder & CEO, Brett Hickey, on Deal Sourcing and Financing Structures at the Global M&A Network USA Growth & Deals Forum

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October 28, 2020

Star Mountain Capital Founder & CEO, Brett Hickey, will be a guest speaker at iiBIG’s Virtual Distressed & Turnaround Investment Forum on October 28, 2020

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January 15, 2020

Senior Investment Professional Dinner Discussions & Live Musical Performance

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December 9, 2019

Star Mountain’s Managing Director & Investment Committee Member, Ryan McGovern Speaking at PartnerConnect Texas 2019

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November 20, 2019

Star Mountain Business Owner and Investment Industry Discussion & Networking Event in Atlanta, GA

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October 28, 2019

Star Mountain CEO, Brett Hickey to Moderate Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs Panel on Financing Options for Growing Businesses

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October 18, 2019

Star Mountain’s Managing Director & Investment Committee Member, Ryan McGovern Speaking at SANNE & RSM Event in NYC

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October 12, 2019

Terry Fox Run for Cancer Research 2019

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