John Michael Pagli
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John Michael Pagli is from Madison, Connecticut, United States. John Michael is currently Partner & Managing Director, Global Strategic Client Engagement at Vortex Capital, located in New York City Metropolitan Area. John Michael also works as Founder, Managing Member, and Chief Executive Officer at Invictus Impact Capital Partners LLC, a job John Michael has held since Oct 2025. Another title John Michael currently holds is Founding Member & Strategic Advisor, Corporate and Institutional Program Development at Hot Planet Repair Team (HPRT). In John Michael's previous role as a Founder, Managing Member, and Chief Executive Officer at Invictus Impact Capital Partners LLC, John Michael worked in New York City Metropolitan Area until Oct 2025. Prior to joining Invictus Impact Capital Partners LLC, John Michael was a Capital Markets, Strategic Financial Alliances and Alternative Investment Partnerships at Corvias and held the position of Capital Markets, Strategic Financial Alliances and Alternative Investment Partnerships at Warwick, Rhode Island. Prior to that, John Michael was a Senior Advisor, Strategic Business Development, New Strategic Initiatives at Prospect Capital Management L.P., based in New York, New York from Aug 2014 to Dec 2016. John Michael started working as Global Head of Strategic Business Development, Partner, Managing Partner, and Managing Director at Boutique Hedge Funds and Alternative Investment Platforms in Jan 1994. From Jan 1980 to Jan 1994, John Michael was Financing and Principal Investing at Investment Banking & Capital Markets Advisory.
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John Michael Pagli's current jobs
(A Member Firm of Finalis Securities LLC) Lead Mandate Execution and Origination for Strategic Growth and Capital Formation – Lower Middle Market Private Equity and Private Credit ✵ Capital Vortex Partners LLC (“Vortex Capital”), headquartered in Züg, Switzerland, is a global capital advisory and corporate finance boutique dedicated to facilitating and executing strategic growth initiatives for promising emerging growth companies and best-in-class private markets fund managers in the lower middle market through sell-side and buy-side mergers & acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, and recapitalizations, as well as capital formation. ✵ Key Industry Verticals include: ~ Energy & Utilities: Renewable Energy; Energy Transition, Infrastructure; Data Centers ~ Healthcare: Biotechnology; HealthTech; Healthcare Equipment; Pharmaceuticals ~ Technology: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, AI Agentic Systems, and AI Workflow Automation; Supply Chain & Logistics; DeepTech; SaaS; FinTech;, Biometrics & ID Verification; Cybersecurity; Defense & DefenseTech; Aerospace; Robotics, Digital Assets Infrastructure and Real World Assets Tokenization ~ Impact Investments: CleanTech & ClimateTech; Regenerative Agriculture & Livestock; Opportunity Zones ~ Opportunistic Real Estate: Boutique Hotels; Luxury Residential Developments; Green Buildings
Initiating and leading the formation and launch of Vortex Invictus Merchant Banking, a joint venture with Vortex Capital to lead direct equity and equity-linked investments in promising emerging growth companies and GP stakes in specialist alternative investment fund managers, separately mirroring the industry verticals of Vortex Capital. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
✵ As a 501(c)3 non-profit dealing with the challenges of today requires humble, servant leadership, and problem solvers who combine different perspectives with a willingness to take responsible risks. Hot Planet Repair Team emerged out of the need to repair the damage that we have caused since the Industrial Revolution began. Conceived in 2020, we are a non-profit organization driving an exponentially scaled hybrid approach to repairing the planet. ✵ Vision: A healthy planet with societies that have undergone significant systemic change by transitioning toward circular, profitable, and eco-industrial global systems. ✵ Mission: To bring all people and organizations on the planet together to implement planet-repairing solutions by creating alliances and developing incentives, tools, support systems, and innovative financing mechanisms.
361Firm (“361”) enables thought leaders, family offices, and institutional investors to collaborate on investments, business opportunities, and philanthropies with access to content, deals, allocators, and strategic advisors.
Strategic Corporate Finance and Business Development Go-to-Market Advisory for Promising Emerging Growth Companies and Best-in-Class Alternative Investment Managers and Investors undertaking Strategic Growth Initiatives ✵ Developed and managed an alternative investment and capital financing platform to create unique, idiosyncratic alpha investment opportunities for sophisticated investors in private markets and absolute return strategies, impact investments, opportunity zones, and disruptive technologies and business models, including artificial intelligence (AI) enabled venture investing and infrastructure revitalization. ✵ Advised on capital expansion for an opportunity zone-based industrial hemp production company. ✵ Advised on US$400 million capital formation program for a US floating rate senior secured leveraged loan manager. ✵ Advisory Board Member advising on a US$20 million TCO EnergyTech capital raise and on a US$20 million Series A Round Opportunity Zone data analytics company. ✵ Advised on a US$100 million capital raising for an early-stage venture capital fund focused on the ecosystems of the Internet of Things (“IoT”) and the Cloud in Southern California. ✵ Advised on capital raising for a Series A Round for a FinTech company in the alternative investment sector and acquisition funding for a roll-up of RIAs. ✵ Advised on the roll-out of a captive reinsurance program for alternative investment managers and their advisors. ✵ Advised on the formation and roll-out of private credit funds for Prospect Capital.
Transformation and Value Creation with Founders and GPs for Investors and Strategic Partners EXPERTISE BY AREA: ✵ Origination, Structuring, Financing, and Marketing of Alternative Investments in Direct Offerings, Commingled Funds, Funds of One, Separately Managed Accounts, Special Purpose Vehicles, SAFES and SAFE Notes, Interval Funds, Secondaries and Continuation Vehicles, Alternative Mutual Funds, UCITs, Insurance Dedicated Funds, Private Placement Life Insurance (PPLI), and Private Placement Variable Annuities (PPVA) ✵ Private Capital Financings and Investments: Private Debt, Private Equity, and Mezzanine, Leveraged Recapitalizations, Green Bonds, CLO Equity, and GP Stakes ✵ Mergers & Acquisitions (Sell-Side and Buy-Side) and Corporate Finance ✵ Industry Verticals: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning; DeepTech; SaaS; FinTech; Biometrics & ID Verification; Cybersecurity; Defense & Defense Tech; Aerospace; Robotics; Data Centers; Digital Assets Infrastructure and Real World Assets Tokenization; Biotechnology; HealthTech; Healthcare Equipment; Pharmaceuticals; P2P/Marketplace Lending; Leasing ✵ Impact Investments: Infrastructure and Project Finance; Renewable Energy & Energy Transition; Clean Tech/Climate Tech; Agribusiness; Social Infrastructure; Opportunity Zones; HBCUs; P3s ✵ Real Estate: Green Buildings; Hotels; Multi-Family; Higher Education Housing ✵ Hedge Fund Strategies: Convertible and Capital Structure Arbitrage; Event Driven; Relative Value; Long/Short Equity; Credit; Mortgage and Asset-Backed Securities; Niche and Opportunistic ✵ Captive Insurance & Reinsurance EXPERTISE BY FUNCTION: ✵ Development, Implementation, and Management: Alternative Financing and Investment Businesses ✵ Strategic Business Development and Origination ✵ Investing and Capital Formation ✵ Developing and Executing Strategic Marketing Programs ✵ Product Development, Launch, Operation ✵ Investor Relationship Management ✵ Crisis Communications, Messaging, Branding, Social Media
John Michael Pagli's past jobs
Invictus Advisors LLC d/b/a, Invictus Impact Capital Partners LLC, an Affiliate Partner of Stonehaven, LLC April 2021 - October 2025 Origination and Placement of Alternative Investment Capital Raising Mandates Private Markets | Hedge Funds | Impact Investments ✵ Originated strategic advisory mandates for market positioning and raising alternative investment strategies and emerging growth companies from family offices, wealth managers, private banks, funds-of-funds, OCIOs, investment consultants, endowments and foundations, public and private pension plans, insurance companies, and sovereign wealth funds in North America and selected other foreign jurisdictions with US secondary domiciles. ✵ Key Mandates included: ~ Venture Capital: Bitcoin Data Mining - B-Round ~ Venture Capital: DefenseTech - Minority Stakes: Seed, A-Round; B-Round ~ Venture Capital: SmallCap Technology - Minority Stakes: Seed, A-Round ~ Venture Capital: Sports and Entertainment - Minority Stakes: Seed, A-Round ~ Venture Capital: TravelTech - A-Round ~ Private Capital: Regenerative Agriculture - Control or Lead Positions ~ Private Credit: Diversified - Fund of Funds through SMAs ~ Private Credit: Mostly SaaS Companies - Loans against Revenues ~ Structured Credit: Diversified - Investment Grade CLO Equity ~ Private Equity: EV Battery Storage - Minority Stakes ~ Private Real Estate Equity: Real Estate - Diversified - GP Stakes Fund of Funds ~ Real Estate Private Equity: Hotel Complex: Florida - Development, Ownership, Management ~ Hedge Fund: Litigation Finance: Medical Legal Claims - Minority Stakes ~ Hedge Fund: Public Equities: Diversified - Quantimental Market Neutral Event-Driven ~ Long Only: US Public Equities: Diversified - US Large Cap Dividend Stocks
✵ Established and managed strategic partnerships through SPVs to grow and diversify alternative funding base for P3 and opportunity zone projects within its social infrastructure, alternative and renewable energy, and environmental services business verticals by identifying, cultivating and working on private 144A and 4(a)2 bond offerings and capital markets deals with strategic financial partners among private debt, equity, infrastructure and real estate funds and direct investors among pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and foundations, and large family offices. ✵ Projects included military housing; higher education housing, parking, guest/event lodging, athletic facilities, staff multi-family housing and other higher education projects; HBCUs; municipal K-12 projects; alternative and renewable energy/utilities; solar energy; municipal water authorities; and stormwater and related environmental brownfield and greenfield projects. ✵ Spearheaded strategic initiatives in the HBCU, ESG/SRI and Impact Investing sectors, including green bonds.
✵ Spearheaded a strategic initiative to create and launch US$2.6 billion of private credit funds for a leading business development company seeking to compete with a growing number of private markets investment fund sponsors. ✵ Launched funds for private and non-traded closed-end credit funds for US middle market direct lending, unitranche loans, energy, financial services companies, hybrid one-stop yield buyouts, CLO equity, P2P/marketplace lending, value-added multi-family real estate, an interval fund, and a European UCITS fund investing in BDCs and cREITs.
Strategic Business Development | Absolute Return Hedge Fund Emerging Managers and Platforms Value Creation through Dynamic Idiosyncratic Alpha Capture Key roles included Global Head of Strategic Business Development and Managing Director at: AlphaBridge Capital Management (US Agency Mortgage Arbitrage); WR Group (Fund of Hedge Funds and SMAs); and Pursuit Partners (Distressed US Asset-Backed Securities); Managing Director, Head of Alternative Investments, Proctor Investment Managers (Hedge Fund Accelerator and GP Stakes); Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Para Advisors (Multi-Event Driven Strategies); and Alpha Investment Management (Fund of Hedge Funds and SMAs); and Managing Partner, President & Member of the Executive Committee, Forest Investment Management (Convertible and Capital Structure Arbitrage and Insurance Dedicated Funds) and Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Founders Financial Group, a private placement insurance affiliate of Forest Investment Management (Private Placement Life Insurance and Private Placement Variable Annuities)
Financing and Investing in Industry and Infrastructure – the Engines of Capitalism Key roles included Director, Equity Capital Markets Division, Burns Fry, Inc. (Canadian Equities and Equity-Linked Securities offerings); Director, Head of Business Development, Merchant Banking Division, Pacific Harbor Capital, Inc. (US Lower Middle Market Private Debt and Private Equity); Senior Associate, Cross Border Mergers and Acquisitions Group, CIBC Wood Gundy Corp.; Senior Associate, Investment Banking Division, Merrill Lynch Capital Markets (Corporate Finance, High Yield Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Recapitalizations, Restructurings, Project Finance, Investment Partnerships, Private Placements); Assistant Vice President, North American Project Finance Division, Union Bank of Switzerland; and Assistant Vice President, Media, Leasing, Specialized Lending, and Acquisition Financing, National Westminster Bank USA.