M. Craig Shepherd is a Senior Managing Director focused on life sciences investing across the firm’s businesses. Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Shepherd worked for the prior seven years as a Managing Director with DRI Capital, a life sciences private equity firm dedicated to the acquisition of pharmaceutical royalties through its managed funds Drug Royalty I, […]

Darius Sepassi is a Managing Director in Blackstone’s Private Equity Group where he is focused on investment activity in the energy sector. Since joining Blackstone in 2016, Mr. Sepassi has been involved with the firm’s investments in Cheniere Energy Partners, Ulterra Drilling Technologies, Onyx Renewables, GridLiance, Transmission Developers, Inc and Aypa Power. Prior to joining […]

Andreas Mang is a Managing Director in Portfolio Operations and the Chief Operating Officer of Equity Healthcare where he is involved in managing medical benefits spend across the Blackstone portfolio. Mr. Mang brings twenty years of healthcare experience to Equity Healthcare, having held various roles in healthcare finance, operations, and strategy. Prior to joining Blackstone, […]

Ian Morris is a Senior Managing Director of the Hedge Fund Solutions Group. Mr. Morris is involved in top-down investment strategy, asset allocation and macroeconomic analysis for BAAM. Before joining Blackstone in 2010, Mr. Morris was Chief US Economist at HSBC in New York for ten years, managing the firm’s North American macroeconomic research team […]

Mustafa M. Siddiqui is a Senior Managing Director of Blackstone.  He serves as Co-Head of BAAM’s Strategic Capital Group, focusing on the acquisition of minority ownership interests in private equity and other alternative asset management firms (“GP stakes”).   Mr. Siddiqui was previously a Senior Managing Director in the Private Equity Group, where he was […]

Brian Kim is a Managing Director in the Real Estate Group at Blackstone. Mr. Kim is currently the Head of Acquisitions and Capital Markets of Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust. Since joining Blackstone in 2008, Mr. Kim has played a key role in a number of Blackstone’s investments including the take private and subsequent sale […]

Joan Solotar is a Senior Managing Director at Blackstone and Global Head of Private Wealth Solutions. She serves on the firm’s Management Committee. Blackstone’s Private Wealth Solutions’ mission is to bring institutional quality products across a broad spectrum of alternative asset classes to high net worth clients and their advisors. Ms. Solotar also serves on the […]

David Van Vlack is a Managing Director & Director in the Finance and Administration group. Since joining Blackstone in 1995, Mr. Van Vlack has been involved with all facets of the administration of the firm’s side-by-side investment program. His responsibilities have included the calculation of investment and income amounts at the fund level and the […]

Scott Soussa is a Senior Managing Director of Blackstone and Head of the Hedge Fund Solutions Group’s Strategic Capital Group, which includes the hedge fund seeding and GP stakes businesses. Previously, Mr. Soussa was Head of Due Diligence in the Hedge Fund Solutions Group where he led a cross-functional team charged with evaluating and monitoring […]

Teddy Desloge is a Principal with GSO Capital Partners, where he focuses on public corporate credit investments across various products for GSO’s Performing Credit Group. Before joining GSO, Mr. Desloge was an Associate at Gefinor Capital and an Analyst in the Leveraged Finance Group at Jefferies. Mr. Desloge graduated with a major in Economics from […]