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Star Mountain's senior team as well as its Senior Advisors / Operating Partners are aligned with Star Mountain's investors by investing their personal capital and sharing in the firm's carried interest with all U.S.-based employees.

"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," said Brett Hickey, Star Mountain Capital Founder & CEO. "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," said Leanne Schmitt. "I believe Star Mountain's distinctive business model and highly aligned team, including sharing its profits with 100% of its US 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."

Mrs. Schmitt joins Star Mountain's President George Mattson in its recently opened office in the West Palm Beach area (Star Mountain's 3rd office in Florida and 10th nationwide).

Mrs. Schmitt is an investor relations, portfolio management and financial systems investment professional with over 20 years of experience in the industry. Mrs. Schmitt was most recently a Managing Director at Intech Investment Management, a global quantitative equity firm which spun out from the Janus Henderson Group ($400+ billion AUM) in 2022. She has advised some of the world's largest and most sophisticated institutions and private clients on their investments across asset classes including quantitative public equities and alternatives.

She began at Intech in 2003 as a Senior Quantitative Portfolio Analyst / Trader focusing on portfolio management. As her career progressed, since 2010 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. Mrs. Schmitt 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 across North America. 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, Mrs. 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 9/11, she was appointed Head of the Disaster Recovery team for the Prime Brokerage Support Team implementing user tests and monitoring Disaster Recovery website.

With a computer science degree, Mrs. Schmitt began her career as a Teacher's Assistant in the Fordham University Computer Science Department for undergraduate courses prior to joining Salomon Smith Barney in NYC in 2001.

Mrs. Schmitt is a graduate of Fordham University with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science where she played Division I Women's Soccer as well as Women's Rugby.

She obtained her Master of Business Administration from Keller Graduate School of Business with a concentration in International Business with Entrepreneurial Focus and is FINRA Series 63 and 7 licensed.

In 2021, Mrs. Schmitt received the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the Workplace Certificate from the University of South Florida.