Star Mountain Capital
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 services, consumer services, energy, retail, transportation and financial services.
For 15 years, Mr. Goodwin was successively promoted through a number of roles with BNP Paribas, S.A., culminating as Co-Head of the National Merchant Banking business. He coordinated multiple complex projects, including strategic acquisitions, recapitalizations and growth financing, led sourcing and underwriting for approximately $5 billion in capital commitments with the majority of his investments as the Lead Agent. In addition, Mr. Goodwin served as a Principal in charge of new deal origination, underwriting and ongoing portfolio management for Southeast, Southwest, and Western U.S. markets.
Capitalizing on the 2008 financial crisis, Mr. Goodwin served as Director, Financial Services and Corporate Platforms for Hudson Advisors, the captive asset management firm for Lone Star Funds (a global investment firm with approximately $25 billion in assets under management). In this role, Mr. Goodwin identified corporate loans as a new investment asset class and completed the acquisition of a $755 million corporate loan portfolio which delivered exceptional value to investors.
Recently, Mr. Goodwin combined his private investment acumen with operational skills serving as a President, COO and CFO of several established small and medium-sized U.S. private businesses (lower middle-market companies) where he completed numerous strategic initiatives including acquisitions.
Mr. Goodwin was also Vice President at The Fuji Bank, Ltd., where he was responsible for originating and executing leveraged finance opportunities with private equity investors in the Southwest. He began his banking career with Mbank, N.A. (now part of JP Morgan).
He earned a BBA in Finance from The University of Texas at Austin and was previously Series 7, 63 and 24 licensed.
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Star Mountain Capital
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Star Mountain Capital ($1.5bn + AUM) has a differentiated business model and “Collaborative Ecosystem” including its three channel approach to investing into small and medium-sized businesses via Direct Investments, Strategic Primary Fund Investments and Secondary Fund Investments. Star Mountain invests: 1. As a strategic limited partner into other private equity and private credit fund managers focused on the lower-middle-market (including SBIC funds and as an anchor investor); 2. As a secondary investor providing liquidity to existing limited partner investors; and, 3. Directly into companies to help them grow (in the form of senior debt, mezzanine and/or equity investments). Star Mountain often partners with its portfolio of top performing fund managers to help "match" businesses with investment partners who are best suited to maximize value for business owners. Investing in the Growth Engine of America ® – Star Mountain is a specialized investor exclusively focused on providing capital to lower middle-market established small and medium-sized private U.S. businesses that have between $2 million and $20 million of EBITDA. Star Mountain’s data-driven approach, bringing large market expertise and resources to private equity and private credit investing is powered by its custom-built technology and its Collaborative Ecosystem ®. Star Mountain was recognized as one of the Best Places to Work by both Crain’s and Pensions & Investments. Crain’s two-part survey process consisted of evaluating each nominated company’s workplace policies, practices, philosophy, systems and demographics. The second part involved an employee survey to measure the employee experience. The combined scores determined the top companies and the final ranking. Detailed eligibility criteria can be found here: https://www.bestplacestoworknyc.com/eligibility-criteria P&I partners with a company called Best Companies Group on the survey that is behind the Best Places to Work program. P&I works with them to develop the parts of the questionnaires that are specific to money management. Beyond those questions, P&I’s survey partner develops and scores the surveys. P&I only sees anonymous responses to questions, identified only by the company name. If Best Companies determines that a firm scores above the threshold cutoff that they have set for a firm to be considered a Best Place to Work then P&I names them on their list. P&I uses the same cutoff for all firms but rank the firms against their peers by number of employees. P&I only ranks the top 5 firms per size category and then list the rest in alphabetical order. There is no fee to participate in the Best Places to Work in Money Management program. P&I’s partner, Best Companies Group, does offer some of the results of the surveys for sale to each participating company, but that has no influence on how a company is ranked or whether or not they are recognized as a best place to work. Detailed eligibility criteria can be found here: https://www.bestplacestoworkmm.com/eligibility-criteria