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 to create purposeful, valuable, 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.
Equity Healthcare
Spend Management and Procurement
Blackstone Networks & Portfolio Synergies
Data Science
Talent and Organizational Performance
Building Sustainable Businesses
The Blackstone CEO Conference
The Blackstone CEO Conference
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.
Copeland: More Than Capital
Blackstone brings more than just capital to investments. Taking a long-term view, we’ve helped Copeland lower costs, grow its manufacturing footprint, optimize pricing and enhance employee engagement. Since becoming a standalone company, Copeland has increased investments, launched over 120 new products and filed 430 new patents.
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.
News & INsights
Blackstone’s Approach to Portfolio Talent
Blackstone’s Global Head of Portfolio Talent and Organizational Performance, Courtney della Cava, shares perspectives on the labor market and how Blackstone helps cultivate talent across our portfolio companies.
Blackstone Career Pathways
Our program aims to drive economic mobility for diverse and historically underrepresented talent by leveraging Blackstone’s unique scale to create employment, advancement, and development opportunities.
Behind the Build: SPANX
Cricket Whitton, CEO of SPANX, shares with Blackstone’s Ann Chung what’s next for the category-creating company and what made Blackstone “the ultimate brand advocate.”