Robert Petrini is a Senior Managing Director and the Global Chief Investment Officer for Private Credit and Joint Portfolio Manager for the Capital Opportunities strategy for in Blackstone Credit and Insurance (BXCI) based in New York.

Before joining Blackstone in 2005, Mr. Petrini was a Principal of DLJ Investment Partners (“DLJIP”), the $1.6 billion mezzanine fund of CSFB’s Alternative Capital Division. Prior to that, Mr. Petrini was a member of DLJ’s Leveraged Finance Group.

Mr. Petrini graduated magna cum laude with a BS in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Joseph Wharton and Benjamin Franklin Scholar.