Welcoming Curtis Yasutake as Citizen Mint’s New Director of Investments

We’re thrilled to announce that Curtis Yasutake has joined Citizen Mint as our new Director of Investments. Curtis brings a rare combination of institutional investment rigor and private markets expertise that will meaningfully strengthen how we source, evaluate, and execute investment opportunities for our clients.

Most recently, Curtis held senior private equity investment roles at New Catalyst Strategic Partners, an Apollo-backed private equity firm, and Pacific Current Group. At these firms, he was responsible for leading GP-stakes and seeding investments. This highly specialized discipline required deep diligence, strong manager relationships, and sharp underwriting judgment. Prior to that, he spent over a decade in manager research, primarily as a Senior Research Analyst at Russell Investments, where he helped manage multi-billion-dollar fund of funds and provided investment recommendations to institutional investors. Curtis is a CFA Charterholder, holds an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, and earned a B.A. in Business Administration from Seattle University, where he graduated summa cum laude.

At Citizen Mint, our mission is to open the doors of private market investing to a broader range of investors and doing that well requires exceptional investment judgment at every step. Curtis’s extensive private markets network and experience evaluating fund managers and structuring complex deals makes him an ideal partner. We’re excited to have him on the team and look forward to the perspective and expertise he provides to everything we do.

Connect with Curtis on LinkedIn or learn more about Citizen Mint at citizenmint.com.