Todd Benson

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Mr. Todd Benson serves as Partner & Investment Committee Member at Star Mountain Capital. He serves as an Advisor at Bullish. He served as Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer at Herington LLC. He served as a Board Member at Grata and Mint House. Through Herington, he is an investor, advisor, and/or board member for LBOs, and venture- and growth-equity-stage companies, including Fevo (Chairman of the Board), Gold, Inc., L2 (acquired by Gartner), Sharebite, and Work & C, as well as to and in several private capital funds. Before the formation of Herington in 2011, he was Managing Partner and Global Co-Head of Citi Private Equity (CPE), which he co-founded in 2000 and grew to a globally diversified asset management platform with assets under management (AUM) of $11 billion. Working collaboratively with leading private equity firms around the globe, large and small, as a co-investor, co-sponsor, mezzanine lender, and limited partner, CPE generated returns over industry benchmarks across its investment programs. Before CPE, Benson was a Managing Director in Salomon Smith Barney's Investment Banking Division, where he executed numerous strategic and financing transactions on behalf of companies in the media and communications industry as well as for portfolio companies of leading sector-focused private equity firms. His responsibilities included participation on the Division-wide year-end compensation committee and heading the Division's training committee. Benson holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where he was elected a George F. Baker Scholar and graduated with High Distinction, and presently serves as a member of the nominating committee and co-head of the strategy committee of the board of directors of the HBS Club of New York. He also has served as President and/or Treasurer of 15 W. 81st Street Tenants Corp and a member of the boards of directors of Green Sea, which provides science-based environmental certification standards, and of Trey Athletes, which empowers student-athletes to achieve lifelong success. A native of Kansas City, he graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in Accounting and Business Administration and remains a loyal fan of the Jayhawks, Chiefs, and Royals.