Chris Pasko is a Senior Managing Director in Blackstone Advisory Partners LP, based in Boston.

Since joining Blackstone, Mr. Pasko has been involved with a variety of transactions including advising Xerox in its acquisition of ACS, Publicis in its acquisition of Razorfish from Microsoft, Sapient in its acquisitions of Derivatives Consulting Group and Nitro, SeaChange in its acquisition of VividLogic, Xafinity in its sale to Advent International, DTN in its sale to Telvent, Everbank in its sale of an equity stake to Sageview, and Microsoft in its partnership with Yahoo.

Prior to joining Blackstone in 2007, Mr. Pasko spent 20 years at Morgan Stanley, during which time he founded the firm’s Boston office and was one of the Heads of its Technology Investment Banking Group.  During his career, Mr. Pasko has advised on over 150 completed technology transactions for clients including ADTRAN, Akamai, Amdocs, America Online, Cascade, Digitas, EMC, Fujitsu, Keane, Microsoft, Publicis, Sapient, Siemens, TCS, WebMD, Wipro and Xerox.

Mr. Pasko holds a BA in Economics from Williams College, where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, was named a Class of 1960 Scholar in Economics, and won the Jack Larned International Management Prize. Mr. Pasko earned his MBA from Harvard University.  While at Harvard, Mr. Pasko served as a Teaching Fellow in the Economics Department.