Jon Gray

President & Chief Operating Officer at The Blackstone Group, Inc.

Jon Gray

Jon Gray

President & Chief Operating Officer at The Blackstone Group, Inc.

Overview

Career Highlights

Blackstone Multi-Asset Advisors LLC
Blackstone Group Management LLC
The Blackstone Group, Inc.

RelSci Relationships

8151

Primary Location

New York

Number of Boards

21

Birthday

1970

Age

51

Number of Awards

11

Estimated Net Worth

$1.8B

Relationships

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Stephen A. Schwarzman

Co-Founder at The Blackstone Group, Inc.

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Hamilton E. James

Former President at Blackstone Alternative Credit Advisors LP

Relationship likelihood: Strong

John G. Finley

Secretary & Chief Legal Officer at The Blackstone Group, Inc.

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Laurence A. Tosi

Managing Partner at Westcap Mgt. Ltd.

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Kathleen Skero

Senior Managing Director, Finance Group at The Blackstone Group, Inc.

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Michael Bruce Nash

Executive Chairman at Blackstone Mortgage Trust, Inc.

Relationship likelihood: Strong

William J. Stein

Senior Managing Director at The Blackstone Group, Inc.

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Dennis McDonagh

Former Senior Managing Director & Chief Financial Officer, Real Estate Group at The Blackstone Group, Inc.

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Kenneth A. Caplan

Global Co-Head of Real Estate at The Blackstone Group, Inc.

Relationship likelihood: Strong

John A. Magliano

Executive Officer at Blackstone Energy Partners II LP

Relationship likelihood: Strong

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In The News

Nasdaq

March 2, 2021

Blackstone (BX) CEO Receives 20% Hike in 2020 Compensation

Nasdaq

March 1, 2021

Blackstone CEO Schwarzman took home $610.5 mln in 2020

Business Insider

February 13, 2021

Top 20 rainmakers - Blackstone's Bumble boost- Wall Street's talent war

Business Insider

January 31, 2021

The spirit of Occupy Wall Street is back, but this time it's coming from inside the stock exchange

Business Insider

January 30, 2021

Inside the rise of Jon Gray - Meet Goldman's Stephanie Cohen - Bank of America MD list

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Jon Gray

President & Chief Operating Officer at The Blackstone Group, Inc.

Family Members

Spouse

Mindy Gray

Co-Founder at University of Pennsylvania - Basser Research Center

Education

B.S. in Economics

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

The Wharton School is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wharton was the world’s first collegiate business school and the first business school in the United States. It was established in 1881 through a donation of Joseph Wharton.

BA in English, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

University of Pennsylvania - School of Arts & Sciences

The University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences forms the foundation of the scholarly excellence that has established Penn as one of the world's leading research universities. They teach students across all 12 Penn schools, and their academic departments span the reach from anthropology and biology to sociology and South Asian studies. Members of the Penn Arts & Sciences faculty are leaders in creating new knowledge in their disciplines and are engaged in nearly every area of interdisciplinary innovation. They are regularly recognized with academia's highest honors, including the National Medal of Science, the MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize. The educational experience offered by Penn Arts & Sciences is likewise recognized for its excellence. The School's three educational divisions fulfill different missions, united by a broader commitment to providing their students with an unrivaled education in the liberal arts. The College of Arts and Sciences is the academic home of the majority of Penn undergraduates and provides 60 percent of the courses taken by students in Penn's undergraduate professional schools. The Graduate Division offers doctoral training to over 1,500 candidates in more than 30 graduate programs. And the College of Liberal and Professional Studies provides a range of educational opportunities for lifelong learners and working professionals.

Memberships

Member

Current

Aspen Economic Strategy Group

The Economic Strategy Group (ESG), a non-profit program of the Aspen Institute, is composed of a diverse, bipartisan group of distinguished leaders and thinkers with the goal of promoting evidence-based solutions to significant U.S. economic challenges. Co-chaired by Henry M. Paulson, Jr. and Erskine Bowles, the ESG fosters the exchange of economic policy ideas and seeks to clarify the lines of debate on emerging economic issues while promoting bipartisan relationship-building among current and future generations of policy leaders in Washington.

Fellow

Current

David Rockefeller Fellows

Established in 1989, the Partnership’s David Rockefeller Fellows program exposes participants to key leaders and issues in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors of the city. Since the program’s inception, 250 executives have become better corporate citizens through immersion in civic issues and operations during the year-long fellowship established as a tribute to the Partnership’s founding chairman.

Career History

Bx President & Chief Operating Officer & Senior Managing Director

Current

Blackstone Mortgage Trust, Inc.

Blackstone Mortgage Trust, Inc. is a real estate finance company, which engages in originating senior loans collateralized by commercial real estate. Its investment objective is to preserve and protect shareholder capital while producing risk-adjusted returns primarily through dividends generated from current income from its loan portfolio. The company was founded by Samuel Zell, John R. Klopp, and Craig M. Hatkoff in July 1997 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

President & Chief Operating Officer

2018 - Current

Blackstone Multi-Asset Advisors LLC

BMAA invests in companies located in the US. The firm provides financing for buyout capital requirements. The firm also makes co-investment opportunities alongside other Blackstone funds.

Professional

2018 - Current

Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (BAAM)

From a top-down perspective, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (BAAM) focuses on positioning funds to capitalize on market opportunities through focused research and allocation of resources. From a bottom-up perspective, the firm seeks to build deep relationships with underlying hedge fund managers that are strengthened by their investment professionals' relevant experience in the financial markets, as well as the Blackstone network in other alternative asset classes.Their funds' strategies generally allocate capital to a diversified group of portfolio (i.e., hedge fund) managers that invest or trade in a wide variety of securities and other instruments, including, but not limited to, equities and fixed-income securities, currencies, commodities, futures contracts, options and other derivative instruments, all of which may be listed or unlisted, rated or unrated, distressed or publicly or privately issued. BAAM Funds also may invest in separate managed accounts with underlying managers. In general, BAAM offers 3 types of products: (1) commingled funds (2) customized funds (3) advisory clients.BAAM employs various types of investment strategies including broadly diversified and strategy focused. Their strategy focuses strategies include: (1) equity: fundamental, opportunistic trading, top down, private equity and quantitative long/short (2) credit: opportunistic, relative value, mortgages and structured/asset back securities (3) corporate distressed (4) leveraged loans (5) event-driven (5) direct origination (6) reinsurance (7) hedging (8) managed futures (9) commodities (10) interest rates and (11) emerging markets.

Boards & Committees

Member, Advisory Board

Current

New York University - REIT Center at Schack Institute of Real Estate

Established in 1998, the REIT Center provides a forum for the study the and analysis of publicly-traded REITs and other real estate operating companies and the related corporatization, securitization, and consolidation trends that are transforming the real estate industry nationally and globally. The Center’s goal is to serve as a sponsor for research, discussion, and analysis; an educational center for conferences and symposia for professionals and students; and a forum for leading thinkers from all sectors and professions in the industry to gather in order to exchange and to develop ideas. Among other activities, the Center sponsors an influential annual conference on REITs and a White Paper series. New York University’s proximity to Wall Street creates an exciting focus for the Center as we seek to complement and to work with existing industry groups and trade associations with similar interests. The mission of the Center is to fulfill a need for in-depth study and analysis in an objective academic setting and thereby, to enhance the work of other groups.

Member, Board of Directors

Prior - 2010

Extended Stay America, Inc. (Inactive)

Extended Stay America, Inc. develops, owns and operates extended stay lodging facilities. The firm operates moderately priced extended stay lodging hotels across the US. Its brands include Extended StayAmerica Efficiency Studios, Homestead Studio Suites, StudioPLUS Deluxe Studios and Crossland Economy Studios. The company was founded on August 6, 1995 by H. Wayne Huizenga and is headquartered in Spartanburg, SC.

Member, Board of Directors

Prior

Boca Resorts LLC

Boca Resorts LLC owns and operates resorts and hotels. The company is headquartered in Boca Raton, FL.

Member, Board of Governors

Prior

National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Inc.

NAREIT®, the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts®, is the worldwide representative voice for REITs and publicly traded real estate companies with an interest in U.S. real estate and capital markets. NAREIT's members are REITs and other businesses throughout the world that own, operate, and finance income-producing real estate, as well as those firms and individuals who advise, study, and service those businesses.

Member, Board of Directors

Prior

Pension Real Estate Association

Founded in 1979, the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) is a non-profit trade association for the global institutional real estate investment industry. PREA currently lists over 700 corporate member firms across the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. Our members include public and corporate pension funds, endowments, foundations, Taft-Hartley funds, insurance companies, investment advisory firms, REITs, developers, real estate operating companies and industry service providers.

Non-Profit Donations & Grants

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$10M

2019

University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania (commonly referred to as Penn or UPenn) is a private, Ivy League university, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn considers itself the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, as well as the first university in the United States with both undergraduate and graduate studies.

$25K - $50K

2018

University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania (commonly referred to as Penn or UPenn) is a private, Ivy League university, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn considers itself the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, as well as the first university in the United States with both undergraduate and graduate studies.

$1,500 - $10K

2017

Child Mind Institute, Inc.

The Child Mind Institute is an independent, national nonprofit dedicated to transforming the lives of children and families struggling with mental health and learning disorders. The Institute teams work every day to deliver the highest standards of care, advance the science of the developing brain and empower parents, professionals and policymakers to support children when and where they need it most.

Political Donations

$2,800

2019

Edward J. Markey

Senator from Massachusetts

$5,000

2017

National Realty Political Action Committee

$2,700

2017

Josh S. Gottheimer

Representative at Office of the Representative from New Jersey's 5th District, Josh Gottheimer

Transactions

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The Blackstone Group, Inc. purchases Clarus Ventures LLC

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The Blackstone Group, Inc. purchases Banco Popular Espanol SA /Real Estate Bus from Banco Santander SA

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The Blackstone Group, Inc., Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies purchase GE Capital Real Estate /Mexico & Australia Mortgage Loans from General Electric Capital Corporation, General Electric Company

Public Holdings

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Awards & Honors

Rank #280

2018

Forbes Magazine - 400 Richest People in America

Rank #1161

2017

Forbes Magazine - The World's Billionaires

Rank #1275

2016

Forbes Magazine - The World's Billionaires

Events

Speaker

Chapel Hill, NC, United States

6th Annual UNC Kenan-Flagler Alternative Investments Conference

Other Affiliations

Jon Gray is affiliated with Blackstone Mortgage Trust, Inc., Blackstone Multi-Asset Advisors LLC, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (BAAM), Blackstone Liquid Credit Strategies LLC, Blackstone Alternative Credit Advisors LP, Blackstone Management Partners LLC, Harvest Fund Advisors LLC, GSO Capital Advisors LLC, Blackstone Strategic Alliance Advisors LLC, Blackstone Alternative Investment Advisors LLC, Blackstone Mezzanine Advisors II LP, Blackstone Treasury Solutions Advisors LLC, Blackstone Tactical Opportunities Advisors LLC, Blackstone Strategic Capital Advisors LLC, Blackstone Mezzanine Advisors LP, Blackstone Debt Advisors LP, Blackstone Real Estate Income Advisors LLC, Blackstone Group Management LLC, Blackstone Real Estate Advisors Europe LP, Blackstone Real Estate Advisors V LP, Blackstone Real Estate Advisors IV LLC, Blackstone Real Estate Advisors International LLC, CT Investment Management Co. LLC, The Blackstone Group, Inc., Blackstone Real Estate Advisors, Blackstone Real Estate Advisors III LP, Gray Foundation, Blackstone Real Estate Partners VII LP, Blackstone Real Estate Partners VII.TE.1 LP, Blackstone Real Estate Special Situations Advisors LLC, Credit Suisse Strategic Partners, Blackstone Debt Advisors LLC, Boca Raton Resort & Club, Inc., Blackstone Commercial Real Estate Debt Fund (Cayman) LP, BLACKSTONE REAL ESTATE SPECIAL SITUATIONS EUROPE L.P., Blackstone Real Estate Special Situations Fund LP, Blackstone Real Estate Special Situations Fund II 1 LP, Blackstone Real Estate Special Situations Fund II LP, Blackstone Commercial Real Estate Debt Fund LP, New York University - REIT Center at Schack Institute of Real Estate, Extended Stay America, Inc. (Inactive), Boca Resorts LLC, National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Inc., Pension Real Estate Association

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