Jennifer Morgan is the Global Head of Portfolio Operations at Blackstone.

She leads the firm’s operating executives and advisors, who partner closely with Blackstone’s portfolio companies to accelerate, create and safeguard value. Since joining the firm, Ms. Morgan has expanded the caliber and breadth of capabilities it offers the portfolio. This includes industry expertise and experience across many key disciplines critical for successful businesses today, including leadership & talent development, ESG, brand strategy, data science, sales and marketing, operations, technology and product. She has also further grown programs that leverage Blackstone’s scale for the benefit of portfolio companies and their employees in areas like healthcare and spend management.

Prior to joining Blackstone, Ms. Morgan served as Co-Chief Executive Officer at SAP – becoming the first female CEO of a DAX company. She also held various, additional leadership roles at SAP over 16 years – including serving on its executive board between 2017 and 2020 and overseeing many of the company’s largest and most important strategic growth initiatives.

Ms. Morgan holds a BA in Business Administration from James Madison University and is a board member at Candle Media, Bumble, UKG, the National Academy Foundation, and is on the Board of Advisors at James Madison University’s College of Business. She has been named one of the Most Powerful Women in Business by Fortune and Most Powerful Women in the World and Technology by Forbes.

Jonny Bauer is a Managing Director in Portfolio Operations. He leads the brand and business strategy in Blackstone’s Brand Strategy and transformation practice for its portfolio of over 250 companies. He is responsible for ensuring a brand’s purpose, categorical positioning and values are clearly defined upstream in the sequence of value creation and are connected to all elements of the business transformation for Blackstone portfolio companies.  Over a career that has crossed four continents, Jonny has helped create some of the most innovative and influential brand transformations over the last two decades.

Prior to Blackstone, Jonny was Partner and Global Chief Strategy Officer at Droga5 (Adage’s and Adweek’s agency of the decade 2020), where he founded and led the strategic function at the agency while overseeing all strategic efforts for clients and new business, including brand and business strategy, innovation, media, data strategy and experience strategy. Recent experience includes leading the transformational thinking for JP Morgan Chase, Google, Facebook, Dyson, LVMH, Prudential, New York Times, Unilever, Mercedes-Benz, Adidas, United Rentals, among others. In 2011 he was the youngest inductee to the American Advertising Federation’s Advertising Hall of Achievement (and only strategist), and in 2020 was named Chief Strategy Officer of the Year by AdAge’s Creativity Awards.