Bio
Senior Managing Director in the Private Equity Group. Leads Blackstone’s media and communications investment activities. Has led or co-led Blackstone’s efforts in virtually all media and communications-related investments and has day-to-day responsibility for management of Blackstone Communications Advisors. Since joining Blackstone in 1991, has been involved in the execution of Blackstone’s investments in Axtel, Bresnan Communications, Centennial Communications, Cine UK/UGC, Crowley Digital/Salmon PCS, CommNet Cellular, CTI Holdings, Deutsche Telekom iPCS, Grupo Iusacell, LiveWire and related follow-ons, New Skies, PaeTec, TDC, TWFanch-two, Universo Online, US Radio and the firm’s distressed debt investments in Adelphia Communications, Kabel BW, Charter Communications, Kabelnetz NRW and Primacom. Before joining Blackstone, worked in the Acquisitions Group at Trammell Crow Ventures, the principal investment arm of Trammell Crow Company. Director of Axtel, Cineworld Group plc, Deutsche Telekom, and TDC. Director of the Paris Review, the literary foundation, and of the Humanities Advisory Board at Rice University. Graduated magna cum laude from Rice University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
