Valerie Kritsberg is a Senior Managing Director and the Global Head of Capital Markets and Trading for Blackstone Credit and Insurance (BXCI) based in New York. Ms. Kritsberg leads BXCI’s capital markets origination and sourcing across both liquid and private strategies. Her team acts as a single point of contact within BXCI for banks, broker dealers and other key market participants.

Since joining Blackstone, Ms. Kritsberg has focused on the group's public and private market investments including distressed and special situation investments across multiple industries. Prior to joining Blackstone in 2005, Ms. Kritsberg worked in Credit Suisse First Boston’s Global Energy Investment Banking Group where she worked on equity, leveraged finance and M&A transactions for a number of corporate and private equity clients.

Ms. Kritsberg received a BS from New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business.