Archives: Team members

Ravi Ugale is focused on originating, analyzing and managing investments as well as working as an investment specialist as part of Star Mountain’s Client Partner team helping with high quality reporting and communications with investors. He also provides leadership, training and mentorship to Star Mountain’s junior team, largely in the Tampa office. He has completed […]

Michael Goldstein is a Director focused on portfolio management, investments, risk management, valuations and reporting.  Mr. Goldstein has 10+ years of experience in strategic portfolio management, risk management and valuations from leading alternative investment managers including Blackstone and KKR. Mr. Goldstein was most recently a Director at Blackstone within their $30+ billion Tactical Opportunities investment […]

Chris Calabrese is a Strategic Portfolio Partner assisting with portfolio management at Star Mountain Capital. Prior to Star Mountain in 2005, Mr. Calabrese co-founded, as a named partner, LBC Credit Partners, a private credit investment firm which grew to approximately $3.5 billion in assets under management prior to being acquired by CIFC Asset Management LLC […]

Ms. Stauffer is an investment advisory executive with over 20 years of experience from some of the world’s leading investment firms, helping educate and consult family offices, RIAs and institutional investors on a wide range of investment and portfolio construction strategies including how to optimize the use of alternative investments. Prior to joining Star Mountain, […]

Mrs. Schmitt is an investor relations, portfolio management and financial systems investment professional with over 20 years of experience in the industry. Mrs. Schmitt was most recently a Managing Director at Intech Investment Management, a global quantitative equity firm with $22 billion in assets under management (AUM) which spun out from the Janus Henderson Group […]

Mary D’Souza has 25 years of private equity, private credit, fund investing, commercial and investment banking and C-level operational experience through various senior roles including at GE Capital, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, Four M Investments and a privately held pharmaceutical company. Ms. D’Souza spent nearly a decade as a Managing Director at GE Capital in the […]

Mr. Ericson is an experienced general counsel and compliance executive with extensive experience in asset management including private credit, BDC and private equity investment funds and strategies. Mr. Ericson was most recently Assistant General Counsel at H.I.G. Capital, LLC, a $50+ billion global alternative investment firm, where he served as the primary internal counsel focused […]

Sean McGuire is a Director at Star Mountain Capital with a particular focus on portfolio management. Beginning his career in 2011 as an analyst at Star Mountain, Mr. McGuire has dedicated more than a decade of his career helping grow the firm. While at Star Mountain, Mr. McGuire has held the roles of Analyst, Associate, […]

Mr. Deery is a senior investment professional with approximately 25 years of experience investing senior debt, junior debt and private equity as well as in financial analysis / accounting due diligence.  He has successfully completed over 100 transactions representing over $9 billion of invested capital and sat on the investment committees of multiple investment funds. […]

Renald “Ray” Durand has more than 15 years of experience in finance, accounting and alternative investment fund administration. At Star Mountain, Mr. Durand is part of the senior finance and operations team that oversees financial reporting and treasury management for all of Star Mountain’s investment vehicles. Mr. Durand was most recently a Vice President at […]