Brett Hickey Net Worth 2026: Star Mountain Capital Founder

No reputable outlet has published a net worth estimate for Brett Hickey. The $2.6 million figure on some profile sites has no source. It is also hard to square with his position as founder and CEO of Star Mountain Capital, a New York investment firm managing about $5 billion in assets as of March 2026. Star Mountain is fully employee-owned, and neither Hickey's stake nor his pay has been disclosed.

What is Brett Hickey's net worth?

There is no Forbes listing, public filing or press estimate for Hickey's personal wealth. The previous version of this page gave $2.6 million and a yearly income of about $100,000. Neither figure has a source, and both sit badly with running a multibillion-dollar asset manager, so we have removed them.

His wealth depends on two things that are not public:

• His ownership share in Star Mountain. GrowthCap reports the firm is 100% employee-owned, with more than 100 team members and senior advisors sharing in investment profits. How that ownership is split has not been disclosed.
• His own pay and co-investments. Asset managers usually earn management fees on assets and a share of investment gains, but Star Mountain does not publish these figures or what its founder takes home.

Because the firm is private, the honest answer is that his net worth is unknown.

Brett Hickey's yearly earnings, income and salary

His salary has never been reported. The earlier figures of $100,000 a year, $8,300 a month and $277 a day had no source, and the claim that he is "one of the top earners in the alternative investment industry" contradicted them anyway. We have deleted both.

Early life and family

Hickey is Canadian by background. According to his Star Mountain biography, he was a competitive speed skater when he was younger. He won a Canadian national gold medal, set a Canadian national record and was on the Canadian National Training team while in college. More recently, he finished the Lake Placid Ironman triathlon.

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Brett Hickey's wife

Earlier versions of this page named his wife. We could not confirm that in any reliable source, so we have removed the name. We do not publish unverified details about private family members.

Education

Hickey graduated with distinction from McGill University in Montreal with a Bachelor of Commerce in finance and accounting. He is also an alumnus of Harvard Business School's Owner/President Management program, an executive education course. The old page said he "graduated from Harvard Business School" and earned a master's at McGill. Both claims overstate his record: the McGill degree is a bachelor's, and the Harvard program is executive training, not an MBA.

Professional life

Career timeline

At Citigroup, he advised asset managers, insurers and banks. His firm biography says he worked on more than $20 billion of completed deals, while GrowthCap puts the figure at more than $8 billion. The state-backed platform he ran from 2004 invested in underserved areas and in businesses owned by women and minorities.

Star Mountain Capital

Star Mountain invests in the U.S. lower middle market: established small and medium-sized private companies. It has three strategies: private credit (lending), private equity, and secondaries, meaning it buys existing investors' stakes in other funds, often at a discount. The firm is headquartered in New York City and has other offices across the country. Its reported assets under management have grown quickly:

• about $4.5 billion (early 2026)
• about $5 billion (March 2026)

GrowthCap reports that Star Mountain has made more than 350 direct investments and over 40 secondary or fund investments. GrowthCap named it a Top Private Credit Firm of 2025.

Recent news (2025-2026)

• February 2026: Star Mountain closed its second small business investment company (SBIC) fund at $286 million, above target, qualifying for the full $175 million in Small Business Administration debentures.
• August 2026: the firm closed Star Mountain CFO I, its first collateralized fund obligation, arranged with Evercore. It gives insurers and other institutions rated access to its lower middle-market loans.
• 2025: Hickey received the Corporate Social Responsibility Award from the Foreign Policy Association.

Philanthropy

Hickey founded and chairs the Star Mountain Charitable Foundation, a 501(c)(3) focused on job creation for veterans, women and athletes, economic development, and health and wellness. His biography lists the Pathfinders to Peace Award and the Guiding Star Award from AYUDA for the Arts among his honors.

Age, height and weight

His date of birth has not been published by a reliable source. The earlier claim that he was 41 is hard to reconcile with a banking career that started before 2004 and 25 years of investing experience. We have removed it, along with the unsourced height and weight.

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Net worth compared

Like Hickey, Alec Litowitz founded and runs a private investment firm (Magnetar Capital). For founders of private asset managers, personal wealth depends mostly on their ownership share and fee income, and those numbers rarely become public.

How we checked this page

Career and education details come from his official Star Mountain Capital biography and a January 2026 GrowthCap interview. Fund news comes from Alternative Credit Investor. We removed the unsourced net worth, income figures, wife's name, overstated degrees, age, height, weight and the empty contact section.