Brett Hickey
Brett Hickey is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Star Mountain Capital. He has been structuring, analyzing, and managing private equity, mezzanine, and U.S. Government-sponsored investment funds for over 20 years. He has broad experience performing due diligence on, selecting, and building small business fund managers and has helped structure over a dozen larger funds representing a few billion dollars in assets. Hickey is also a frequent guest lecturer on industry panels and at academic institutions.
Brett Hickey Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Founder and Chief Executive Officer
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Investment Banking Analyst
Academic History
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BComm in Finance
CAREER
- Hickey began his first business in high school, selling clothes which he was able to get on consignment. Using an entrepreneurship class, he was able to use a small room in the school to sell his clothes, keeping his overhead to nearly zero.
- He started his Wall Street career at Salomon Smith Barney in the investment banking division covering financial institution clients including asset managers, insurance companies, and banks.
- He moved to the buy-side to focus on making principal investments in 2004 and has been focused on U.S.-based lower middle-market private equity and private credit investing ever since.
- Before launching Star Mountain Capital, he was the Co-Founder and President of a multi-manager platform including 4 U.S. state-sponsored small business investment funds.
- At Citigroup Global Markets, he worked on over $8 billion in completed debt and equity capital raising and restructuring transactions for leading financial institutions.
EDUCATION
- Hickey paid for college working on the oil drilling rigs in northern Canada.
- He attended Mount Royal College, where he studied business and entrepreneurship while training on the national speed skating team.
- He is an alumnus of Harvard Business School’s Owner, President / Manager CEO training and management program for distinguished business-school" Owners.
- He has completed numerous other business programs including Building Your business Through Transformational Leadership & Innovation at the Innovatrium on the University of Michigan.
- Hickey set a Canadian record in speed skating, was a Canadian gold medalist and North American bronze medalist.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
- Pathfinders to Peace Award from the Shinnyo-En Foundation
- Guiding Star Award from AYUDA for the Arts
- Philanthropic Achievement Award by A Caring Hand, The Billy Esposito Foundation
- McGill University President of the Year Award in 2002
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
- Founder and Chairman of Star Mountain Charitable Foundation.
- Global Board of Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs
- Current Active Member for the New York City and Greenwich Chapters of the Young Presidents’ Organization
- Global Board Director of Help For Children
- Current Active Board Member of Greenwich YMCA
- Board Member of the McGill Alumni Association of New York
- Co-Chair of McGill’s Tri-State Capital Campaign