Leanne Schmitt joined Star Mountain Capital, a specialized investment manager, as a managing director. Schmitt will join Star Mountain’s president, George Mattson, in the company’s recently opened office in West Palm Beach, FL.
Schmitt is an investor relations, portfolio management and financial systems investment professional with more than 20 years of experience in the industry. Schmitt was most recently a managing director at Intech Investment Management, a global quantitative equity firm which spun out from the Janus Henderson Group in 2022. She began at Intech in 2003 as a senior quantitative portfolio analyst and trader focusing on portfolio management. As her career progressed, 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 was also a member and coordinator of the Women of Intech committee which coordinates philanthropic efforts for female employees at Intech.
Prior to Intech, 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 prime brokerage financial systems working closely with traders on the desk. Following the Sept. 11 attacks, she was appointed head of the disaster recovery team for the Prime Brokerage support team implementing user tests and monitoring disaster recovery website.
“Leanne is joining our team in response to the increasing demand by institutional and retail investors to target defensive, high yielding and asymmetric upside returns,” Brett Hickey, founder and CEO of Star Mountain Capital, said. “Leanne’s skills in technology, investing and client service will allow Star Mountain to continue to deliver high quality trusted communications to our growing investor base and enhancing our value proposition to investors and business owners. We are aligned with Leanne’s values including helping develop women professionals in the finance industry which Star Mountain is committed to through both its non-profit and for-profit initiatives.”
“I was attracted to Star Mountain’s investor-centric differentiated and purpose-built business focused on generating systematic alpha for investors with the further benefit of low market correlation, which I think is increasingly important in today’s uncertain economic environment,” Schmitt said. “I believe Star Mountain’s distinctive business model and highly aligned team, including sharing its profits with 100% of its U.S. team, will be a great place for me to utilize my 20 years of experience including at Intech where I helped manage the global institutional equity portfolios during the firm AUM peak of $72 billion in 2007 and then transitioned to educate, support and grow the investor base. I look forward to leveraging my experience and network of relationships to help do the same at Star Mountain.”
