Specialized private credit and secondaries investment firm Star Mountain Capital hired Warren DeKinder as a managing director based in the firm’s Dallas office, one of its team’s more than 20 locations across the U.S. DeKinder has more than 30 years of leadership experience advising and recommending strategic investment solutions to institutions and private clients.
“We are committed to providing our investors with the best service possible in accessing the benefits of the less efficient and large U.S. lower middle market, especially at this time where smaller banks are challenged in servicing the growing needs of growing private businesses,” Brett Hickey, founder and CEO of Star Mountain Capital, said. “We are excited for Warren to join other Dallas-based senior team members Managing Director Chris Goodwin and Senior Advisors Rob Kaplan and Tom Tull. Having launched my first private lending fund over 20 years ago in Texas, I am excited to be growing our footprint in this important and growing marketplace.”
“Having experienced the results for my own portfolio as an investor with Star Mountain and with a former trusted colleague of mine at the firm, I am thrilled to be joining as a full-time member of this impressive organization,” DeKinder said. “I believe many institutional and high-net-worth investors can benefit from the higher returns and low market correlation that Star Mountain targets through its distinctive platform in this large and inefficient market and further value how growing many of these businesses, which include essential service-oriented businesses, can also be of great value to society and the economy.”
Most recently, DeKinder spent 14 years as a senior managing director of investor relations at Intech Investment Management, a global quantitative equity firm with $70 billion in assets under management at its peak that spun out from the Janus Henderson Group in 2022. He 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.
Prior to joining Intech, DeKinder spent eight years as a senior vice president at ING Investment Management focused on institutional sales and relationship management in the central and western U.S.
DeKinder began his career as an investment consultant with DeMarche Associates, where he worked in investment manager research sourcing investment strategies and conducting qualitative as well as quantitative manager due diligence for recommendation to clients.
After DeMarche Associates, DeKiner took a position at LCG Associates, where he became a specialist in investment manager search and selection and was a member of the manager review committee.
DeKinder holds FINRA Series 7, 6 and 63 licenses and is a chartered financial analyst.
