Archives: Team members

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 […]

Christopher Birosak has over 30 years of Leveraged Finance, Private Equity, and Investment Banking experience. His distinguished career includes former Co-Head of BAML Capital Partners (the internal private equity group of Bank of America / Merrill Lynch) where he oversaw approximately $6 billion of private equity investments and former Managing Director of Merrill Lynch Leveraged […]

Harry Haskins is an Investment Committee member within Star Mountain Capital, LLC. For the past 15 years until the end of June 2013, Mr. Haskins was the Head Career Executive running the SBIC program at the U.S. Government’s Small Business Administration (SBA) managing a team of approximately 85 people. He served on the Investment Committee […]

John McCarty has over two decades of investment and advisory experience with the majority of that time spent sourcing, evaluating, structuring, negotiating and managing direct private debt and equity investments in the U.S. lower middle-market.  Based in Atlanta, Mr. McCarty is responsible for direct investment and portfolio management activities as well as leading the firm’s […]

Anne Yang has over 30 years of asset management, investment banking and corporate finance experience including Managing Director in the Mergers & Acquisition group and member of the Executive Office at Goldman Sachs. She has extensive experience with Fortune 500 companies, private equity firms, investment advisors and high growth small and medium-sized businesses. In addition […]

David DiPaolo has over two decades of alternative investment management and advisory experience with the majority of that time spent evaluating, structuring, negotiating and managing direct private debt investments in the U.S. lower middle-market.  At Star Mountain, Mr. DiPaolo serves on the Investment Committee and is involved in the firm’s direct investment and portfolio management […]

Mr. McGovern has over 25 years of investment and advisory experience with much of that time spent managing private credit funds and working with private credit fund investors around the world. At Star Mountain, Mr. McGovern is involved in all aspects of the firm’s investment and portfolio management activities in addition to business development and […]

John Polis is an entrepreneurial information management and business operations leader with a 25+ year track record of creating and enhancing technology enabled businesses and building platforms that allow for significant scale. Prior to joining Star Mountain, Mr. Polis was COO and CTO for Guidepoint Global, a primary research firm and expert network serving the […]

Christopher Gimbert has over 20 years of private equity / credit investment and operating experience. Mr. Gimbert is the CFO of Star Mountain Capital, a specialized asset management firm focused exclusively on the lower middle-market. Mr. Gimbert was previously Chief Operating Officer. Prior to helping launch Star Mountain, Mr. Gimbert was the Founder & CEO […]