Star Mountain Capital
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 in 2022. She has advised some of the world’s largest and most sophisticated institutions and private clients on their investments across asset classes including quantitative public equities and alternatives.
She began at Intech in June 2003 as a Senior Quantitative Portfolio Analyst / Trader focusing on portfolio management. As her career progressed, since 2010 she began focusing on institutional and intermediary investor relationships as well as thought leadership and content development by creating client facing investment messaging focusing on setting strategy expectations and explaining the potential investment outcomes. She presented a sophisticated mathematical investment philosophy, process, investment portfolio and performance results to institutional plan sponsor staff, investment boards, consultants, manager research analysts, RIAs and wealth management advisors across North America. She was also a member and coordinator of the Women of Intech committee which coordinates philanthropic efforts for female employees at Intech.
Prior to Intech, Mrs. Schmitt was in Global Prime Brokerage Technology at Salomon Smith Barney where she worked in web development as well as new client development of extracts, reports and account configuration for the Prime Brokerage Internet and Intranet working closely with traders on the desk. Following 9/11, she was appointed Head of the Disaster Recovery team for the Prime Brokerage Support Team implementing user tests and monitoring Disaster Recovery website.
With a computer science degree, Mrs. Schmitt began her career as a Teacher’s Assistant in the Fordham University Computer Science Department for undergraduate courses prior to joining Salomon Smith Barney in NYC in 2001.
Mrs. Schmitt is a graduate of Fordham University with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and where she played Division 1 Women’s Soccer as well as Women’s Rugby.
She obtained her Master of Business Administration from Keller Graduate School of Business with a concentration in International Business with Entrepreneurial Focus and is FINRA Series 63 and 7 licensed.
In 2021, Mrs. Schmitt received the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the Workplace Certificate from the University of South Florida.
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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