Dennis Mitchell joined Starlight Capital in March 2018 as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer. He has over 20 years of experience in the investment industry and has held executive positions with Sprott Asset Management, serving as Senior Vice-President and Senior Portfolio Manager, and Sentry Investments, serving as Executive Vice-President and Chief Investment Officer. Mr. Mitchell received the Brendan Wood International Canadian TopGun Award in 2009, 2010, and 2011 and the Brendan Wood International 2012 Canadian TopGun Team Leader Award. He also received the Afroglobal Television Excellence Award for Enterprise in 2020 and the Black Business and Professionals Association’s Harry Jerome President’s Award in 2021. Mr. Mitchell holds the Chartered Financial Analyst and Chartered Business Valuator designations and earned a Master of Business Administration from the Schulich School of Business at York University in 2002 and an Honors Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Wilfrid Laurier University in 1998. Mr. Mitchell currently sits on the Board of the Toronto Foundation and is Co-Founder and Director of the Black Opportunity Fund.

Ben is a Partner and Head of European Investments. He joined Astatine after spending over a decade at Evercore, where most recently he was Senior Managing Director and Co-Head of the Utilities, Infrastructure and Transport Group at Evercore, across Europe and Asia. Ben advised Astatine on a number of occasions, including on the take-private of Energy Assets Group and the sale of South Staffordshire Water Group to KKR. He has advised several other leading global infrastructure investors during his 20-year investment banking career including 3i Infrastructure, Antin, CPPIB, GIC, Goldman Sachs, I Squared Capital, JPM, KKR, Macquarie, Q-Super, OMERS, OTPP and USS.

Ben is a Partner and Head of European Investments. He joined Astatine after spending over a decade at Evercore, where most recently he was Senior Managing Director and Co-Head of the Utilities, Infrastructure and Transport Group at Evercore, across Europe and Asia. Ben advised Astatine on a number of occasions, including on the take-private of Energy Assets Group and the sale of South Staffordshire Water Group to KKR. He has advised several other leading global infrastructure investors during his 20-year investment banking career including 3i Infrastructure, Antin, CPPIB, GIC, Goldman Sachs, I Squared Capital, JPM, KKR, Macquarie, Q-Super, OMERS, OTPP and USS.