Garrett Moran is currently a Fellow of the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.  From 2005 to 2011 he was the Chief Operating Officer of Blackstone's Private Equity group, overseeing the group's day-to-day operations, playing a senior role in its investment process and guiding the firm's CSR initiatives.  

Prior to joining Blackstone, Garrett was the President of MMC Capital.  Before joining MMC Capital in 2002, Mr. Moran worked at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette for twenty years.  His last position there was Vice Chairman and co-head of the Banking Group.  He joined DLJ in 1982, and during his tenure he also headed the firm’s High-Yield Bond Department and served as Chief Operating Officer of its Taxable Fixed-Income Division.  Following the firm's acquisition by Credit Suisse in 2001, he served as co-head of the investment banking integration effort and was briefly the head of CSFB’s Private Equity Division. 

Mr. Moran received a B.A. from Middlebury College and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  He is a board member of the Posse Foundation, Year Up, the Blackstone Foundation and Middlebury College.