Curtis Glovier

Senior Advisor (New York, NY)

Mr. Glovier has approximately 30 years of investment management, private credit, private equity, investment banking, consulting, operating and governance experience from leading institutions. His 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.

Mr. 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 (NASDAQ: PPBI). 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, Mr. Glovier had a nearly 10 year career as a Managing Director & Investment Committee member of Fortress Investment Group where he led private equity and debt investments in several industries with a focus on financial services.

Mr. 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.

Mr. Glovier then moved to Perseus, a nearly $2 billion AUM diversified private equity firm headquartered in Washington, DC, where he rose to co-lead the middle market buyout group in the New York City office.

Mr. Glovier serves on the Board of Governors of the International Tennis Hall of Fame and is a Board Advisor to Cornerstone Advisors, a management consulting firm focused on financial institutions. Prior non-profit boards include the Retirement Industry Trust Association, comprised of the largest independent custodians in the U.S.

Mr. 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.