Wealth management
10 Blackstone executives
These ten Blackstone executives hold or have held chief executive, president, chief operating, chief financial, chief technology and senior vice president roles at Blackstone and its business lines. Readers can learn how Blackstone's leaders run operations, finance and technology across private equity, real estate, credit and infrastructure.
Professionals to explore
01—10A.J. Murphy
LinkedInExperience: COO, Private Equity Strategies · Blackstone
COO, Private Equity Strategies at Blackstone since 2025, and COO for Corporate Private Equity at Blackstone (2023–2025). The profile also lists Head of Markets at Standard Investments (2021–2023), Managing Director at Silver Lake (2018–2021) and Head of Global Capital Markets at Bank of America (2015–2018).
Alex Black
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President · Blackstone
Senior Vice President at Blackstone since 2022, with Vice President roles at Blackstone listed for 2018–2021 and 2021–2022. The Blackstone entry lists the SVP role under General Management. The profile also lists Co-Founder of OneCloud (now part of Workiva) (2017–2021) and Board Advisor at Fireside Strategic since 2024.
Chris Striano
LinkedInExperience: Senior Managing Director - COO of Global Finance · Blackstone
Senior Managing Director - COO of Global Finance at Blackstone since May 2021. His profile headline gives the role as Chief Operating Officer of Global Finance at Blackstone, and his Blackstone entry lists the position at the Executive level. The entry describes Blackstone (BX) as a financial services company.
Eugene Min, CFA
LinkedInExperience: Senior Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer - Real Estate Asia · Blackstone
Senior Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer - Real Estate Asia at Blackstone since 2025, and Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer - Real Estate Asia at Blackstone (2018–2025). His profile also lists Chief Financial Officer at CLSA (2015–2018) and Executive Director at J.P. Morgan Asset Management (2015).
John Stecher
LinkedInExperience: Chief Technology Officer · Blackstone
Chief Technology Officer of Blackstone since 2020. His profile says he is responsible for all aspects of technology across Blackstone, advises the firm's investment teams and acts as a resource to portfolio companies on technology-related matters. He was Group CTO and Chief Innovation Officer at Barclays (2017–2020) and Managing Director Marcus by Goldman Sachs at Goldman Sachs (2016–2017).
Jon Camire
LinkedInExperience: Managing Director, Portfolio Operations & CFO, Equity Healthcare · Blackstone
Managing Director, Portfolio Operations & CFO, Equity Healthcare at Blackstone since 2016, a role his profile lists under Finance & Accounting at the C-Level. His profile also lists Vice President, Financial Modeling at Unum (2014–2016), AVP & Actuary, Risk Analysis & Planning at Unum (2007–2011) and Director & Actuary at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (2002–2006).
Kate Rubenstein
LinkedInExperience: Managing Director, COO of Perpetual Fund Solutions, BXCI COO of BCRED, BXSL & BMACX · Blackstone
Managing Director, COO of Perpetual Fund Solutions, BXCI COO of BCRED, BXSL & BMACX at Blackstone since 2024. At Blackstone she also held Managing Director & COO, Blackstone Private Credit Fund and Blackstone Secured Lending Fund (2021–2025), Managing Director, COO of North America Private Credit, COO of BCRED & BXSL (2023–2025) and Managing Director, Portfolio Operations (2018–2021).
Kristen Reiner
LinkedInExperience: Global COO of Real Estate ICS · Blackstone
Global COO of Real Estate ICS at Blackstone since 2026 and a Managing Director at Blackstone since 2023; her profile lists the COO role at the Executive level. Her other Blackstone roles on the profile are Principal (2021–2022), Vice President (2019–2020) and Associate (2016–2018).
Kurt Summers
LinkedInExperience: President, Blackstone Infrastructure Strategies L.P. (BXINFRA) · Blackstone
President, Blackstone Infrastructure Strategies L.P. (BXINFRA) since 2025 and Senior Managing Director at Blackstone since 2022; his profile headline also names him Head of Public-Private Partnerships at Blackstone Infrastructure Partners. He was a Senior Advisor at Blackstone (2020–2022) and lists a Board Member role at Applegreen since 2023 and a Board Observer role at Signature Aviation since 2022.
Stephen A. Schwarzman
LinkedInExperience: Chairman, CEO & Co-Founder · Blackstone
Chairman, CEO & Co-Founder of Blackstone, with the role dated from 1985 on his profile. His profile describes him as chairman and CEO of Blackstone Inc., which he established in 1985 with Peter G. Peterson, and his headline also lists him as the author of What It Takes.
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does Blackstone standardize operations and reporting across its private equity, real estate, credit and infrastructure businesses?
- 02What does Blackstone look for when selecting technology and service providers for its funds and portfolio companies?
- 03How are new fund vehicles and investor products set up and run operationally at Blackstone?
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