Stephen A. Schwarzman is Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Blackstone and the Chairman of the board of directors of its general partner, Blackstone Group Management L.L.C. He has been involved in all phases of the firm's development since its founding in 1985.
Mr. Schwarzman began his career at Lehman Brothers, where he was elected Managing Director in 1978 at the age of 31. He was engaged principally in the firm's mergers and acquisitions business from 1977 to 1984, and served as Chairman of the firm's Mergers & Acquisitions Committee in 1983 and 1984.
Mr. Schwarzman is Chairman of the Board of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations and The Business Council. He is on the board of The New York Public Library, The New York City Ballet, The Asia Society and The Film Society of Lincoln Center. He also serves on The JP Morgan Chase National Advisory Board, The New York City Partnership Board of Directors and The Advisory Board of the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing. Mr. Schwarzman is also a Trustee of The Frick Collection in New York City.
Mr. Schwarzman holds a BA from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has served as an adjunct professor at the Yale School of Management and on the Visiting Committee of Harvard Business School.
Peter G. Peterson is Senior Chairman and Co-Founder of Blackstone and a member of the board of directors of its general partner, Blackstone Group Management L.L.C. He is Chairman Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations and Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relation's International Advisory Board. He is also founding Chairman of the Peterson Institute for International Economics (Washington, D.C.) and founding President of The Concord Coalition. Mr. Peterson was the Co-Chair of The Conference Board Commission on Public Trust and Private Enterprise (Co-Chaired by John Snow, formerly Secretary of the Treasury). He was also Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2000 to 2004.
Prior to founding Blackstone, Mr. Peterson was Chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers (1973–1977) and later Chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb Inc. (1977–1984). He was Chairman and CEO of Bell and Howell Corporation from 1963 to 1971.
In 1971, President Richard Nixon named Mr. Peterson Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs. He was named Secretary of Commerce by President Nixon in 1972. At that time he also assumed the Chairmanship of President Nixon's National Commission on Productivity and was appointed U.S. Chairman of the U.S.–Soviet Commercial Commission, which negotiated comprehensive trade, Ex-Im credit, arbitration, copyright and lend-lease agreements.
Mr. Peterson was formerly a Director of Sony Corporation, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, Federated Department Stores, Black & Decker Manufacturing Company, General Foods Corporation, RCA, The Continental Group, Cities Service, and the Public Agenda Foundation.
Mr. Peterson is a director of The India Fund, Inc. and The Asia Tigers Fund, Inc. and has served on a number of other corporate boards. He is a Trustee of the Committee for Economic Development, the Japan Society and the Museum of Modern Art and a Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research and The Nixon Center.
Mr. Peterson is the author of several books, including Running On Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It; Gray Dawn: How the Coming Age Wave Will Transform America – and the World; Will America Grow Up Before It Grows Old?; and Facing Up: How to Rescue the Economy from Crushing Debt and Restore the American Dream .
He has been awarded honorary PhD degrees by Colgate University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, Northwestern University, New School University, the University of Nebraska, the University of Rochester, and Southampton College of Long Island University.
Hamilton ("Tony") E. James is President, Chief Operating Officer of Blackstone, and a member of the board of directors of our general partner, Blackstone Group Management L.L.C. He is also a member of Blackstone's Management and Executive Committees and sits on each of the firm's investment committees.
Prior to joining Blackstone Mr. James was Chairman of Global Investment Banking and Private Equity at Credit Suisse First Boston and a member of the Executive Board. Prior to the acquisition of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette by Credit Suisse First Boston in 2000, Mr. James was the Chairman of DLJ's Banking Group, responsible for all the firm's investment banking and merchant banking activities. Mr. James joined DLJ in 1975 as an Investment Banking associate. He became head of DLJ's global M&A group in 1982, founded DLJ Merchant Banking, Inc. in 1985, and was named Chairman of the Banking Group in 1995. He is a Director of Costco Wholesale Corporation and Swift River Investments, Inc., and has served on a number of other corporate Boards.
Mr. James is Vice Chairman of The Kennedy Center Corporate Fund Board, member of the President's Export Council – Subcommittee on Technology & Competitiveness, Trustee and member of The Executive Committee of The Second Stage Theatre, Vice Chairman of Trout Unlimited's Coldwater Conservation Fund, Trustee of Woods Hole Oceanographic, a board member of The Council for the United States and Italy and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of American Ballet Theatre.
Mr. James graduated magna cum laude with a BA from Harvard College in 1973 and was a John Harvard Scholar. He earned an MBA with high distinction from the Harvard Business School and graduated as a Baker Scholar in 1975.
J. Tomilson Hill is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Funds of Hedge Funds group, a Vice Chairman of Blackstone and a member of the board of directors of our general partner, Blackstone Group Management L.L.C.
Mr. Hill previously served as Co-Head of the Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions Advisory group before assuming his role in the Funds of Hedge Funds group. In his current capacity, Mr. Hill is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day activities of the group, including investment management, client relationships, marketing, operations and administration. He also serves as a member of Blackstone's Management and Executive Committees.
Before joining Blackstone in 1993, Mr. Hill began his career at First Boston, later becoming one of the Co-Founders of its Mergers & Acquisitions Department. After running the Mergers & Acquisitions Department at Smith Barney, he joined Lehman Brothers as a partner in 1982, serving as Co-Head and subsequently Head of Investment Banking. Later, he served as Co-Chief Executive Officer of Lehman Brothers and Co-President and Co-COO of Shearson Lehman Brothers Holding Inc.
Mr. Hill is a graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations where he chairs the Investment Committee and serves on the Council's Board of Directors, and is a member of the Board of Directors of Lincoln Center Theater, where he serves as Vice Chairman. Mr. Hill serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. He is a member of the Board of Directors of OpenPeak Inc.
Michael A. Puglisi, a Senior Managing Director, is the firm's Chief Financial Officer.
Since joining the firm in 1994, Mr. Puglisi has worked on personnel, financial, tax, compliance and administrative matters. His current responsibilities include firm-wide financial and tax budgeting, analysis and reporting as well as compensation matters and the firm's treasury functions and credit facilities. Additionally, he works closely with senior management on new business initiatives, as well as firm corporate related matters. Mr. Puglisi also serves on the firm's Management Committee.
Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Puglisi served for eleven years in a variety of financial officer roles for Fosterlane Holdings Corporation and its subsidiaries. Prior to Fosterlane, Mr. Puglisi was with Arthur Andersen & Co.
Mr. Puglisi received a BS in Accounting from Fordham University. He is a Certified Public Accountant.
Robert L. Friedman, a Senior Managing Director, is the firm's Chief Legal Officer.
On joining Blackstone in 1999, Mr. Friedman worked primarily in Blackstone's Private Equity group and also participated in the work of the Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions Advisory group. He became Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Legal Officer in early 2003 and continues to participate in the work of the Private Equity group and the Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions Advisory group.
Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Friedman had been a partner with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett for 25 years, where he was a senior member of that law firm's mergers and acquisitions practice. At Simpson Thacher, Mr. Friedman advised The Blackstone Group ever since the firm was founded in 1985.
Mr. Friedman graduated from Columbia College and received a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He currently serves as a Director of Axis Capital Holdings Limited, Northwest Airlines, Inc., and TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. Mr. Friedman is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Institute for Law and Economics of the University of Pennsylvania, a member of the Board of Visitors of Columbia College, a Trustee of the Nantucket Land Council, and a Trustee of Chess-in-the-Schools and New Alternatives for Children, two charitable organizations with programs for disadvantaged youth in New York City.
Sylvia F. Moss is Senior Managing Director—Administration at Blackstone. Ms. Moss has firmwide responsibility for our human resources, information technology, research, facilities and general administrative matters. Before joining Blackstone in 1997, she was the Director of Administration at Schulte, Roth & Zabel and the Director of Operations at Chadbourne & Parke. Prior to that, Ms. Moss was the Executive Director at Kramer, Levin, Naftalis, Nessen, Kamin & Frankel, and a Director at Booz, Allen, Hamilton.
Joan Solotar is a Senior Managing Director in the Public Markets group.
Since joining Blackstone, Ms. Solotar has been
responsible for managing Blackstone's relationships with
its public investors, industry analysts and the general
investment community. She also guides the firm on
analyzing strategic development opportunities and advises Blackstone fund portfolio companies on their positioning in the public equity markets.
Before joining Blackstone in 2007, Ms. Solotar was with
Banc of America Securities where she was a Managing
Director and Head of Equity Research. She started her
career in equity research at The First Boston Corporation and prior to joining Bank of America was part of the financial services team at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and later with CSFB as a Managing Director.
Ms. Solotar was ranked each year from 1995 to 2002 in the Brokers and Asset Management
category on the Institutional Investor All-America Research Team, and consistently ranked highly
in the Greenwich Survey of portfolio managers. She also served as Chairperson of the Research
Committee for the Securities Industry Association in 2001-2002.
Ms. Solotar received a BS in Management Information Systems at the State University of New
York at Albany and an MBA in Finance at NYU. She is currently on the Board of Directors of the
East Harlem Tutorial Program.
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