Star Mountain Capital Transitions Peter K. Scaturro, Sr. To Vice Chairman

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Star Mountain Capital Transitions Peter K. Scaturro, Sr. To Vice Chairman

2025-07-11 03:13 Last Updated At：03:21

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 10, 2025--

Star Mountain Capital, LLC ("Star Mountain"), a specialized, alpha-focused, employee-owned private markets investment firm with over $4 billion in assets under management (“AUM”), is pleased to announce the transition of Peter K. Scaturro, Sr. from Senior Advisor to Vice Chairman. Mr. Scaturro has been serving as a Senior Advisor to Star Mountain since 2024.

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Mr. Scaturro is a 40-year veteran of global banking and wealth management. He has led multi-billion-dollar businesses at Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, U.S. Trust, and Bankers Trust, driving strategy, growth and client engagement across private banking and wealth management platforms worldwide.

“Peter has been an outstanding strategic partner to Star Mountain,” said Brett Hickey, Star Mountain Capital Founder & CEO. “His experience as a CEO, board member, and partner at some of the world’s most respected financial institutions brings invaluable insights to our team. I’ve appreciated Peter’s thoughtful insights and consistent contribution to our long-term goals.”

“Star Mountain has built a distinctive culture rooted in alignment, excellence, and long-term partnerships,” said Peter Scaturro. “One of the things that drew me to Star Mountain was its focus on the lower middle-market. It’s an area that, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration, has accounted for roughly 44% of U.S. GDP and 65% of net new jobs from 2000 to mid-2023. That kind of impact is exciting to be a part of. I look forward to supporting the firm’s continued growth and helping expand its reach among institutional investors, business owners, and partners across the financial community.”

Mr. Scaturro was most recently a Partner in the Global Private Client Business of Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) where he oversaw the Global Private Client Business (now Global Wealth Management). He was a member of the firmwide Goldman Sachs Business Practices Committee and served on the Investment Management Division Operating Committee.

Prior to Goldman Sachs, Mr. Scaturro was the Chief Executive Officer at U.S. Trust until its acquisition by Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) in 2007 for $3.3 billion.

Before becoming Chief Executive Officer at U.S. Trust, Mr. Scaturro was the Chief Executive Officer of Citigroup Global Private Bank where he was responsible for 98 offices in 38 countries. He also served as a member of Citigroup's Management Committee. During his tenure, the Global Private Bank’s earnings more than doubled and had industry leading margins.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Scaturro was a Partner at Bankers Trust (acquired by Deutsche Bank in 1999).

Mr. Scaturro began his career in 1982 at Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City.

Other Roles and Education

Mr. Scaturro received a Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering and a Master of Engineering from Columbia University.

Outside of his executive roles, Mr. Scaturro remains actively engaged in advisory, board, and philanthropic work.

Currently, Mr. Scaturro serves as an Advisory Board Member of Sapient Capital and Vice Chairman at Agilion Systems, Inc. Since retiring from Goldman Sachs, Mr. Scaturro has been involved with numerous boards and advisory positions.

About Star Mountain Capital

With over $4 billion in AUM (committed capital including debt facilities as of 6/30/2025), Star Mountain specializes in providing scalable and data-driven investment solutions across two core strategies:

Star Mountain’s investors include public and private pensions, insurance companies, commercial banks, endowments, foundations, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals. Employee-owned and sharing profits with 100% of its U.S. full-time employees, the firm prioritizes alignment of interests to maximize value for stakeholders.

Since 2010, Star Mountain has completed over 300 direct investments and 50 secondary/fund investments in the North American lower middle-market. The firm has been recognized as one of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies and a Best Place to Work by Crain’s New York Business and Pensions & Investments.

For more information, visit www.starmountaincapital.com.

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Buddhist monks and their dog captivate Americans while walking for peace

A group of Buddhist monks and their rescue dog are striding single file down country roads and highways across the South, captivating Americans nationwide and inspiring droves of locals to greet them along their route.

In their flowing saffron and ocher robes, the men are walking for peace. It's a meditative tradition more common in South Asian countries, and it's resonating now in the U.S., seemingly as a welcome respite from the conflict, trauma and politics dividing the nation.

Their journey began Oct. 26, 2025, at a Vietnamese Buddhist temple in Texas, and is scheduled to end in mid-February in Washington, D.C., where they will ask Congress to recognize Buddha’s day of birth and enlightenment as a federal holiday. Beyond promoting peace, their highest priority is connecting with people along the way.

“My hope is, when this walk ends, the people we met will continue practicing mindfulness and find peace,” said the Venerable Bhikkhu Pannakara, the group’s soft-spoken leader who is making the trek barefoot. He teaches about mindfulness, forgiveness and healing at every stop.

Preferring to sleep each night in tents pitched outdoors, the monks have been surprised to see their message transcend ideologies, drawing huge crowds into churchyards, city halls and town squares across six states. Documenting their journey on social media, they — and their dog, Aloka — have racked up millions of followers online. On Saturday, thousands thronged in Columbia, South Carolina, where the monks chanted on the steps of the State House and received a proclamation from the city's mayor, Daniel Rickenmann.

At their stop Thursday in Saluda, South Carolina, Audrie Pearce joined the crowd lining Main Street. She had driven four hours from her village of Little River, and teared up as Pannakara handed her a flower.

“There’s something traumatic and heart-wrenching happening in our country every day,” said Pearce, who describes herself as spiritual, but not religious. “I looked into their eyes and I saw peace. They’re putting their bodies through such physical torture and yet they radiate peace.”

Hailing from Theravada Buddhist monasteries across the globe, the 19 monks began their 2,300 mile (3,700 kilometer) trek at the Huong Dao Vipassana Bhavana Center in Fort Worth.

Their journey has not been without peril. On Nov. 19, as the monks were walking along U.S. Highway 90 near Dayton, Texas, their escort vehicle was hit by a distracted truck driver, injuring two monks. One of them lost his leg, reducing the group to 18.

This is Pannakara's first trek in the U.S., but he's walked across several South Asian countries, including a 112-day journey across India in 2022 where he first encountered Aloka, an Indian Pariah dog whose name means divine light in Sanskrit.

Then a stray, the dog followed him and other monks from Kolkata in eastern India all the way to the Nepal border. At one point, he fell critically ill and Pannakara scooped him up in his arms and cared for him until he recovered. Now, Aloka inspires him to keep going when he feels like giving up.

“I named him light because I want him to find the light of wisdom,” Pannakara said.

The monk's feet are now heavily bandaged because he's stepped on rocks, nails and glass along the way. His practice of mindfulness keeps him joyful despite the pain from these injuries, he said.

Still, traversing the southeast United States has presented unique challenges, and pounding pavement day after day has been brutal.

“In India, we can do shortcuts through paddy fields and farms, but we can’t do that here because there are a lot of private properties,” Pannakara said. “But what’s made it beautiful is how people have welcomed and hosted us in spite of not knowing who we are and what we believe.”

In Opelika, Alabama, the Rev. Patrick Hitchman-Craig hosted the monks on Christmas night at his United Methodist congregation.

He expected to see a small crowd, but about 1,000 people showed up, creating the feel of a block party. The monks seemed like the Magi, he said, appearing on Christ’s birthday.

“Anyone who is working for peace in the world in a way that is public and sacrificial is standing close to the heart of Jesus, whether or not they share our tradition,” said Hitchman-Craig. “I was blown away by the number of people and the diversity of who showed up.”

After their night on the church lawn, the monks arrived the next afternoon at the Collins Farm in Cusseta, Alabama. Judy Collins Allen, whose father and brother run the farm, said about 200 people came to meet the monks — the biggest gathering she’s ever witnessed there.

“There was a calm, warmth and sense of community among people who had not met each other before and that was so special,” she said.

Long Si Dong, a spokesperson for the Fort Worth temple, said the monks, when they arrive in Washington, plan to seek recognition of Vesak, the day which marks the birth and enlightenment of the Buddha, as a national holiday.

“Doing so would acknowledge Vesak as a day of reflection, compassion and unity for all people regardless of faith,” he said.

But Pannakara emphasized that their main goal is to help people achieve peace in their lives. The trek is also a separate endeavor from a $200 million campaign to build towering monuments on the temple’s 14-acre property to house the Buddha’s teachings engraved in stone, according to Dong.

The monks practice and teach Vipassana meditation, an ancient Indian technique taught by the Buddha himself as core for attaining enlightenment. It focuses on the mind-body connection — observing breath and physical sensations to understand reality, impermanence and suffering. Some of the monks, including Pannakara, walk barefoot to feel the ground directly and be present in the moment.

Pannakara has told the gathered crowds that they don't aim to convert people to Buddhism.

Brooke Schedneck, professor of religion at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, said the tradition of a peace walk in Theravada Buddhism began in the 1990s when the Venerable Maha Ghosananda, a Cambodian monk, led marches across war-torn areas riddled with landmines to foster national healing after civil war and genocide in his country.

“These walks really inspire people and inspire faith,” Schedneck said. “The core intention is to have others watch and be inspired, not so much through words, but through how they are willing to make this sacrifice by walking and being visible.”

On Thursday, Becki Gable drove nearly 400 miles (about 640 kilometers) from Cullman, Alabama, to catch up with them in Saluda. Raised Methodist, Gable said she wanted some release from the pain of losing her daughter and parents.

“I just felt in my heart that this would help me have peace,” she said. “Maybe I could move a little bit forward in my life.”

Gable says she has already taken one of Pannakara’s teachings to heart. She’s promised herself that each morning, as soon as she awakes, she’d take a piece of paper and write five words on it, just as the monk prescribed.

“Today is my peaceful day.”

Freelance photojournalist Allison Joyce contributed to this report.

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