Archives: Team members

Mr. Ide is a senior executive with 30+ years of experience advising some of the world’s largest and most sophisticated institutions and family offices on their investments as well as strategically guiding operating companies as their trusted corporate banker and lender. Mr. Ide spent approximately 22 years at JPMorgan Asset Management, the $2+ trillion AUM […]

Bridgit has over 25 years of experience in Investor Relations & Reporting, Office Administration, Human Resources, Event Planning and Database Maintenance. Prior to joining Star Mountain Capital, Bridgit was the Office Manager at Halyard Capital, a U.S. lower middle-market private equity fund manager, for 20 years where she supported the two founding partners and other […]

Christina Chiaino has 15+ years of Executive Relationship & Office Administration experience with proficiency in managing C-Suite offices as well as assisting their teams and direct reports. Having held positions in banking / finance and sales fields, Christina is able to tailor her skills to meet the needs of her team and provide excellent customer […]

Chris Goodwin is a respected investment and operations executive with 30+ years of complementary experience as a leveraged finance banker, private equity investor and C-level operating executive.  Over the course of his career, Mr. Goodwin has originated, underwritten and managed over $6 billion of complex debt and equity investments across a broad spectrum of industries including manufacturing, business […]

Jonathan Barnes has more than 20 years of private equity investing and investment banking experience, including at Morgan Stanley. Mr. Barnes was a Partner at Halyard Capital, a U.S. lower middle-market private equity fund manager where he spent 15 years. Mr. Barnes helped lead Halyard’s successful investment of over $600 million in the technology, business […]

Todd Benson has 30+ years of experience in investment banking, private equity and private credit investing and making primary and secondary fund commitments, principally at global commercial and investment banking firm Citi and its predecessor firms. Mr. Benson is currently the Managing Partner & CEO of Herington LLC through which he serves as an investor […]

Bruce Eatroff has fourty years of private equity, private credit, fund investing, investment banking and operational experience through various senior roles including at Goldman Sachs, UBS, CIBC and BMO Capital Markets. In 2000, Mr. Eatroff founded Halyard Capital, raising over $600 million, a U.S. lower middle-market private equity fund manager with sophisticated institutional investors including […]

Stephen Paras is a senior leveraged finance and investment banking professional with over 30 years of experience including being the Head of U.S. and European leveraged loan capital markets divisions for Merrill Lynch and Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML), respectively. Mr. Paras structured, underwrote, and distributed over $50 billion in event-driven financings across multiple […]

At Star Mountain, Stephan Connelly is involved in all aspects of the firm’s investment and portfolio management activities in addition to business development and investor relations efforts. Prior to joining Star Mountain, Mr. Connelly was a Senior Associate on the investment team with Newbury Partners, a private equity firm specializing in acquiring buyout, venture capital, […]

Jaspal Bajaj has 20 years of finance, compliance, fund operations and accounting experience across the financial services industry including private equity, fund of funds, fund services and structured products.  Prior to joining Star Mountain, Mr. Bajaj held several senior finance and operations positions including serving as the CFO at Manfra, Tordella & Brookes a $1bn […]