
Curtis Glovier
Strategic Investment & Portfolio OfficerMr. 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. He also serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council of the Sykes College of Business at the University of Tampa. 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.