Blackstone Operating Team
Leveraging Blackstone’s scale, expertise and network to help strengthen and grow our portfolio companies.
WHAT WE DO
Blackstone’s Operating Team partners with companies across the portfolio working to harness data, turn insights into value and create enduring, growth-oriented businesses.
Scale and Network
Blackstone’s portfolio spans 250+ companies with nearly 700,000 employees around the world. This platform provides us with unique insights, connections, experience, and opportunities across our companies, creating a powerful flywheel effect.
Differentiated Portfolio
Blackstone backs leading, innovative businesses across sectors and geographies, creating a differentiated, supportive, and valuable ecosystem for our leaders across our portfolio. The breadth and quality of our portfolio provides valuable touchpoints, learnings, and business opportunities for our leaders as they grow their businesses.
Exceptional Talent
Blackstone’s Operating Team — along with our experienced advisor community — is a group of nimble operating executives with expertise across all aspects of an enterprise. As partners to our portfolio companies, we provide both empathy and experience as we help our companies create and accelerate value.
CAPABILITIES AND EXPERTISE
Our team offers Blackstone portfolio companies expertise and support across a wide range of functional areas.
Operative Executives
Investment Intelligence & Applied AI
Talent & Organizational Performance
Spend Management and Procurement
Blackstone Networks & Portfolio Synergies
Equity Healthcare
Sustainability
The Blackstone CEO Conference brings together leaders from across our portfolio for a transformational two-day experience. Our CEOs and guests participate in wide-ranging, authentic conversations about the challenges and opportunities they face every day and leave with actionable insights to take back to their businesses.
The Fastest Pace of Change… Ever
Rodney Zemmel, Global Head of the Blackstone Operating Team, provides a practical CEO playbook for AI — where the tech is outperforming and the factors for success in business applications. He highlights value creation across software development, customer journeys, content, and machine‑learning.
View from the Top
Jon Gray, Blackstone’s President & COO, discusses AI as ‘the main thing’ and pursuing relentless excellence as a business leader.
Wall Street Meets Silicon Valley
Ruth Porat, President and CIO of Alphabet and Google and Blackstone Board Member, provides cross-industry lessons from finance and tech — with powerful insights on AI and leading through crisis.
Driving New Ways of Transacting with Adevinta
Digital marketplaces and the digital economy have long been important themes for Blackstone. Adevinta is a leading online marketplace platform that supports the new ways in which people shop, transact and work.
Behind the Build: stow Group
Blackstone’s Lionel Assant and Juergen Pinker discuss the transformation of stow Group – from logistics company to robotics innovator – with CEO Jos de Vuyst.
Accelerating Value with AI
Matt Katz, Blackstone’s Global Head of Data Science, unpacks the biggest challenge we see CEOs face in deploying advanced analytics and AI – and how we drive value by helping them get there.
Spotlight on copeland
More Than Capital
Spotlight on copeland
More Than Capital
We believe that Copeland’s shared ownership initiative, with 18,000 eligible employees, is the largest such program ever implemented at a private equity–backed company.
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