Stephen A. Schwarzman is Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Blackstone. Mr. Schwarzman has been involved in all phases of the firm’s development since its founding in 1985. The firm is a leading global asset manager with $344 billion Assets Under Management (as of March 31, 2016).

 

Mr. Schwarzman is an active philanthropist with a history of supporting education and schools. Whether in business or in philanthropy, he has always attempted to tackle big problems and find transformative solutions. In 2015, Mr. Schwarzman donated $150 million to Yale University to establish the Schwarzman Center, a first-of-its-kind campus center in Yale’s historic “Commons” building. In 2013, he founded an international scholarship program, “Schwarzman Scholars,” at Tsinghua University in Beijing to educate future leaders about China. At $450 million, the program is modeled on the Rhodes Scholarship and is the single largest philanthropic effort in China’s history coming largely from international donors. In 2007, Mr. Schwarzman donated $100 million to the New York Public Library on whose board he serves.

 

Mr. Schwarzman is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations, The Business Council, The Business Roundtable, and The International Business Council of the World Economic Forum. He is co-chair of the Partnership for New York City and serves on the boards of The Asia Society and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, as well as on The Advisory Board of the School of

Economics and Management at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is a Trustee of The Frick Collection in New York City and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In 2007, Mr. Schwarzman was included in TIME’s “100 Most Influential People.” Mr. Schwarzman was awarded the Légion d'Honneur of France in 2007 and promoted to Officier in 2010.

 

Ben Rubin was appointed Executive Vice President at AXIS Reinsurance to lead the company’s third party capital business in 2013. Prior to joining AXIS, Mr. Rubin worked at Merrill Lynch in insurance investment banking where his experience encompassed capital raising, mergers and acquisitions and risk transfer solutions globally. Responsible for originating, structuring and executing financing and capital solutions across the insurance sector, Ben has experience introducing alternative sources of capital into the insurance and reinsurance market. 

 

Brett Newman is a Managing Director in the Corporate Development Group. Since joining Blackstone in 2007, Mr. Newman has worked on various strategic initiatives on behalf of the firm, including acquisitions, joint ventures, partnerships and divestitures. As a member of Blackstone’s M&A advisory business until 2014, Mr. Newman also worked with a wide range of third-party clients on numerous transactions in the asset management, specialty finance and health insurance industries. Prior to joining Blackstone, Mr. Newman spent six years at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he provided M&A diligence, valuation and structuring services as a member of the transaction advisory practice. Mr. Newman received a BS in finance and accounting from Bowling Green State University and an MBA with high honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.