Star Mountain Capital
T. J. Della Pietra has 35+ years of leadership, strategic, investment and governance experience in the financial industry, including senior roles at Citigroup (NYSE: C) and J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM) in New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
Mr. Della Pietra held several senior operating roles at Citigroup, with responsibility for strategy, profit & loss, balance sheet, risk management, stakeholder relationships and people for complex businesses which in many cases involved significant transformations.
Most recently he was Global Head of Citi Holdings, where he led a significant reduction in the size and complexity of the business unit responsible for managing Citigroup’s non-core consumer and institutional businesses and assets in the U.S. and overseas.
Prior to this role, he served as CEO for Citigroup Japan based in Tokyo where he led the successful divestiture of Citi’s local consumer businesses and the multi-year restructuring of the local operating platform for Citi’s institutional business. Prior to his CEO promotion, he was the COO for Citibank Japan Ltd., a locally incorporated bank subsidiary with significant corporate and consumer banking businesses, $45 billion of assets, 32 consumer branches and 2,000+ staff, and as Chief Investment Officer for Citi Japan, responsible for Citi’s local principal investment, alternative investment and asset management businesses.
Mr. Della Pietra also served in divisional general counsel roles at both Citigroup and J.P. Morgan, where he had extensive experience handling strategic, regulatory, compliance, governance, litigation and investigation matters and managing legal and compliance teams. While at Citigroup, Mr. Della Pietra served as country general counsel for Citigroup in Japan, where he was a key part of the management team responsible for Citigroup’s acquisition of Nikko Cordial Securities in 2007-2008, and later he served as regional general counsel for Citigroup in Asia Pacific, where he managed a legal team of 150 lawyers in 14 countries.
While at J.P. Morgan, Mr. Della Pietra served as regional general counsel for J.P. Morgan in Asia Pacific, where he supported the firm’s rapid expansion in the mid-1990’s, and later he served as global general counsel for J.P. Morgan’s asset management division, where he supported the firm’s investment management, funds and private banking businesses.
Mr. Della Pietra began his legal career at Davis Polk & Wardwell, where his practice focused on banking and finance, capital markets, funds and investment management, bankruptcies and restructurings, and corporate governance.
Mr. Della Pietra holds a J.D. degree from the University of Virginia and a B.S. degree in Economics (summa cum laude) from Boston College. He is admitted to the bar in New York and Washington, D.C.
As an aligned Senior Advisor, Mr. Della Pietra assists Star Mountain Capital with developing and implementing best practices across a wide range of activities to help maximize and protect value for all stakeholders.
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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