Star Mountain Capital announced that Curtis Glovier has increased his involvement with Star Mountain from a Senior Advisor to a full-time role of Managing Director and Strategic Portfolio Officer.
“It has been a pleasure working with Curtis personally and professionally over the past 4+ years since he became a personal investor and Senior Advisor,” said Brett Hickey, Star Mountain Capital Founder & CEO. “We are confident his 30+ years of alternative investment experience encompassing private credit, private equity, being a C-level operating executive, chairing boards, investment banking and consulting will be of enormous value to all our stakeholders, including investors, portfolio companies and the Star Mountain team.”
“Star Mountain’s purpose-built platform bringing large market resources to high quality, established, small and medium-sized U.S. private businesses is a compelling investment strategy that I believe will continue to provide value to all stakeholders,” said Curtis Glovier. “I am excited to transition to a full-time partner to help Star Mountain further its mission of generating high quality, differentiated returns for investors while also creating a positive community impact by helping build businesses and drive innovation.”
Glovier’s leadership experience includes being a former Department Head and Investment Committee Member within the Credit Business of Fortress Investment Group ($48 billion in AUM as of 12/31/23), serving as Chairman of the Board of three companies and as a board member for numerous financial services, industrial, business services, communications, and technology companies.
Glovier previously served as Chairman, CEO and President of PENSCO Trust Company, a specialty custodian of alternative investments for retirement accounts with over $16 billion in assets under custody, owned by publicly-traded Opus Bank, later acquired by Pacific Premier Bancorp. He also served as Opus Bank’s Senior Executive Vice President where he headed wealth services and served as Managing Partner & lead Investment Committee Member of Opus Equity Partners, an SBIC lower middle-market private investment fund.
Opus Bank was a portfolio investment Mr. Glovier led while at Fortress which he then left to help lead and manage. Previously, Glovier had a nearly 10-year career as a Managing Director & Investment Committee member at Fortress Investment Group where he led private equity and debt investments in several industries with a focus on financial services.
Glovier started his career as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group and then worked in the investment banking leveraged finance and M&A departments at Goldman Sachs. He then transitioned into alternative investments upon joining Nassau Capital, a private investment firm that managed over $2 billion of alternatives for its sole client, the Princeton University Investment Company. At Nassau, he focused on direct investments in companies across a variety of industries and stages ranging from venture capital to private equity.
Glovier next moved to Perseus, a nearly $2 billion AUM diversified lower middle-market private equity firm headquartered in Washington, DC, where he rose to co-lead the buyout group in the New York City office.
Glovier serves on the Board of Governors of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, is a Board Advisor to Cornerstone Advisors and is a Senior Investment Advisor at Grafine Partners. Prior boards include the Retirement Industry Trust Association, comprised of the largest independent custodians in the U.S.
Glovier received a BA in Economics, cum laude, from Princeton University, as well as a Masters of Economic Studies from James Cook University as a Rotary International Scholar, and an MBA, as a Palmer Scholar, from the Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Glovier is FINRA Series 24, 79, 63 and 7 licensed.