Adam Fitzner

Mr. Fitzner has more than 30 years of experience as a private equity investor, board member and turnaround and restructuring advisor, working with more than 60 businesses across growth, transformation and complex situations. He has created many successful companies by building culture, developing high-performance teams and creating clear and aligned strategic plans and driving accountability. His experience spans a vast range of markets including industrial, business services, consumer, financial and technology-enabled companies, with particular expertise in founder, entrepreneur and family-owned lower middle-market companies and Qualified Small Business Stock (IRC Section 1202). Over the course of his career, he has successfully raised and / or invested over $3 billion of new capital and restructured over $5 billion of debt.

Prior to joining Star Mountain, Mr. Fitzner spent 14 years at Hamilton Robinson Capital Partners and Corinthian Capital, two lower middle-market private equity firms, where he sourced, executed and managed control private equity investments. He has served as an investment committee member, led portfolio company boards and executed strategic add-on acquisitions. He was also instrumental in developing and implementing a standardized value-creation approach focused on culture and leadership, strategic planning, commercial growth, operational excellence, digital transformation, financial management and acquisition integration.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Fitzner spent 12 years advising companies, boards, private equity sponsors and creditors on operational turnarounds, financial restructurings, financings and mergers and acquisitions as a Managing Director at Evercore (NYSE: EVR), a Director at Miller Buckfire (now a part of Stifel Financial, NYSE; SF) as well as additional experience at Houlihan Lokey (NYSE: HLI) and Phoenix Management (now a part of JS Held). Across these roles, he helped management teams navigate complex situations, improve liquidity and operating performance and execute recapitalizations, sales and restructurings.

Mr. Fitzner earned a Bachelor of Science, cum laude, with dual majors in Finance and Marketing from Lehigh University where he was a Division I swimmer, team captain, and recipient of the Coaches Award for team leadership.  He also earned an MBA, cum laude, from Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, where he was a Park Leadership Fellow. While at Cornell, he co-founded SightSpeed, a peer-to-peer videoconferencing business that was subsequently acquired by Logitech (NASDAQ: LOGI).