Michelle Caruso-Cabrera

Ms. Caruso-Cabrera has been a director of the Company since March 2023. She is currently the Chief Executive Officer of MCC Global Enterprises, the international advisory company she founded in September 2018, as well as a contributor to CNBC since September 2022. Previously, Ms. Caruso-Cabrera spent over 20 years at CNBC, where she was the network’s first Latina anchor and long-time Chief International Correspondent. Throughout her career, Ms. Caruso-Cabrera reported live from around the world, covering a wide range of economic and business stories, including the 2008 financial crisis, U.S. elections, the debt crisis in Greece, the Brexit vote, the European banking crisis and Russia’s first invasion of Ukraine in 2014. She has reported live from Ukraine, Russia, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico and throughout Europe. She joined CNBC from WTSP-TV in St. Petersburg, Florida, where she spent four years as a general assignment reporter. Prior to that, Ms. Caruso-Cabrera was a special projects producer for Univision where she covered Latin America and the immigrant experience in the U.S., winning an Emmy for coverage of the AIDS crisis. She began her career in 1990 while at Wellesley College, as a stringer for The New York Times, reporting for the education section. Ms. Caruso-Cabrera has also been published in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and the New York Post. The National Association of Hispanic Journalists awarded her “Broadcaster of the Year” and Hispanic Business magazine named her one of the “100 Most Influential Hispanics” in the country.

Ms. Caruso-Cabrera has served as an advisor to Star Mountain Capital since August 2025.  She sits on the international advisory board of the IE Business School in Madrid, one of Europe’s top business schools and on the board of the Bronx Community College. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Economics Club of New York and an active supporter of Manna of Life Ministries in The Bronx. She previously served as a member of the Board of Directors of Del Real Foods, a privately-held food company owned by Palladium Equity, from August 2023 to December 2024. She previously served as the President of the Board of the Ballet Hispanico from March 2020 to June 2025 and was a member of the board for 22 years. Ms. Caruso-Cabrera was a candidate for federal and city-level political office from February 2020 to June 2021. She served on the transition committee for New York City Mayor Eric Adams in 2021.