Blue Wolf Capital Management is a private equity firm, and Blue Wolf Capital Fund II, L.P., is a private equity fund, specialize in control investments in middle-market companies in which managing relationships with government or labor, or resolving financial or operational distress, are critical to building value.

Prior to joining Blue Wolf, Mr. Musuraca was an Assistant Director in the Department of Research and Negotiations, District Council 37 of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), AFL-CIO.  District Council 37 is the largest public-sector union in New York City, representing 125,000 members who work for the City of New York, its covered organizations, and certain agencies of the State of New York.

From 1996-2009, Mr. Musuraca was a designated trustee serving on the Investment and Proxy Committees to the New York City Employees Retirement System (NYCERS), a 300,000 plus member pension fund with assets of almost $40 billion.  In 1997, he was appointed as an alternate trustee, serving on the Investment Committee, to the Cultural Institutions Retirement System (CIRS), a $1 billion fund with members from the major cultural institutions and day care facilities in the New York City metropolitan area.  Mr. Musuraca also served as a member of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) Board, and continues to serve as the labor representative to the Advisory Board of the New York City Independent Budget Office.

Mr. Musuraca received a B.A. from New York University, an M.A. the University of Massachusetts/Boston, and Master’s of Philosophy from the City University of New York (CUNY).  Since 1994, he has taught in the Department of Urban and Labor Studies at Queens College (CUNY).  He has also taught at City College (CUNY), Rutgers University, and the New York City campus of Cornell University.