John McCormick is a Senior Managing Director of Blackstone and Head of Global Business Strategy for the Hedge Fund Solutions group. He also serves on the Investment Committees for Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, Blackstone Strategic Alliance and Blackstone Strategic Opportunities.

Mr. McCormick works closely with senior management and business group leadership to establish clear strategic priorities for the Hedge Fund Solutions group's business globally and to ensure that those priorities are addressed on an ongoing basis.

Before joining Blackstone in 2005, Mr. McCormick was an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Company, where he worked with clients in the financial services industry on a wide variety of strategic and operational issues. Before joining McKinsey, Mr. McCormick practiced law in Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Investment Management group, as Corporate Counsel at Reuters America, and as General Counsel and VP of Business Development for Norbert Technologies. Mr. McCormick also served at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Mr. McCormick received a B.A. from Vassar College and a J.D. from Yale Law School.