Star Mountain Capital
Douglas Waggoner has over 40 years of financial and executive management experience across finance, asset management, business development and client relationship management.
Mr. Waggoner’s distinguished career includes over 20 years at BlackRock, where he played a key role in building BlackRock’s institutional business into the largest and most successful in the asset management industry. As a Managing Director, Doug held multiple leadership positions as a member of the US and Canada institutional client business. Mr. Waggoner was a member of the Account Management Global Executive Committee and Head of the US and Canada Institutional Client Business. He supervised and mentored teams of professionals in New York, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago, Princeton, Wilmington and Toronto. Mr. Waggoner and team specialized in developing, building and maintaining relationships with public and corporate pension plans, endowments, foundations, sub-advisory clients and industry consultants.
Previously, Mr. Waggoner was the Founder and Co-CEO of CastleInternational Asset Management. Doug was responsible for the formation and successful growth of this international equity manager within the PNC Asset Management Group and later merged into BlackRock.
Prior to that Mr. Waggoner was with Dunedin Fund Managers, a Edinburgh, UK based global equity investment manager, with offices in Montreal and Chicago. Doug was a Board member and President of the North American operations. He built the North American business from scratch with clients of the largest corporate and public retirement systems and developed extensive experience working with global asset owners and investment consultants.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Waggoner was Manager of Pension Asset Management at Rockwell International Corporation and began his career in finance roles at Ford Motor Company.
Mr. Waggoner also has Board and non-profit experience including current roles as Trustee at the University of Nebraska Foundation, Finance Advisory Board Member at the University of Nebraska College of Business and Board member at Kno2 Corporation.
Mr. Waggoner holds an MBA and BS degree from the University of Nebraska College of Business.
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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