Steve DeAngelis has joined Star Mountain Capital, a specialized investment manager, as senior advisor.
DeAngelis has more than 30 years of dynamic business building, management and leadership experience from global investment firms. His experience includes founding and building a technology-based wealth management platform to more than $100 billion in assets and selling to PFPC Worldwide (a division of PNC Financial), managing director and head of U.S. Advisor Solutions Group at Goldman Sachs Asset Management and executive vice president, head of distribution at FS Investments and president of FS Investment Solutions.
“We are committed to bringing value to as many RIA, wealth management, family office and qualified individual investors as possible, allowing them to access the higher return, defensive and low market correlated potential returns alongside our institutional investors and are excited to have Steve assist with his best practices,” Brett Hickey, founder and CEO Star Mountain Capital, said. “Steve’s experience with alternative investment distribution, investor reporting, communications and talent management is a great addition for all our stakeholders including continuing to provide differentiated capabilities and reliable capital for the high-quality businesses we invest with.”
“Star Mountain has built an impressive team and business model to unlock the opportunity in the larger and fragmented lower middle-market which I believe is a great complement to larger market private credit and secondary strategy fund managers in particular,” DeAngelis said. “I appreciate the opportunity to focus time and capital on differentiated investment value propositions for financial advisors, especially at Star Mountain Capital, an organization that aligns with my values and team-oriented culture.”
In addition to being an investor and aligned senior advisor with Star Mountain Capital, he is currently on faculty at Villanova University School of Business as an executive in residence, where he develops and teaches students how to communicate with more impact in the professional world. DeAngelis also serves on multiple boards of privately held companies and is the founder of Auctoritas Executive Consulting where he provides consulting services for individuals and businesses committed to strategic growth through efficient execution, accountability and executive effectiveness.
DeAngelis most recently served as chief revenue officer at Orion Advisor Solutions, an industry leading financial technology firm, where he served on the firm’s executive committee and was responsible for all sales and revenue generation activities.
Previously, DeAngelis was executive vice president and head of distribution at FS Investments. DeAngelis served on the firm’s executive committee and as president of FS Investment Solutions, FS Investments’ wholly owned broker-dealer subsidiary. Throughout FS Investments’ history, it has served as a strategic distribution partner for leading asset managers including Blackstone and KKR. DeAngelis led the firm’s evolution into a multi-product, multi-channel sales organization, including its entry into the RIA, wire house and regional broker-dealer markets.
Before FS Investments, DeAngelis spent nine years at Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM). As managing director, head of U.S. advisor solutions group, he led distribution of all products and services to registered investment advisors, regional and national wire houses and independent broker-dealers. He was also responsible for managing home office relationships, on both the distribution and platform research sides.
Prior to Goldman Sachs, he co-founded and served as President of ADVISORport, the industry’s first web-based platform for delivering customized managed account services to broker-dealers, banks and third-party RIAs. During DeAngelis’ eight years leading ADVISORport, the platform grew to more than $100 billion in assets and served the advisory business of financial service leaders such as JP Morgan, Charles Schwab and MetLife. ADVISORport successfully sold to PFPC Worldwide, a division of PNC Financial, in 2003.
