Ethan Leidinger is the Chief Operating Officer of Blackstone Capital Partners, based in New York.

Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Leidinger was the Chief Operating Officer of Standard Investments, the asset management arm of Standard Industries, a privately-held global industrial company. His prior roles included Director of Investor Relations and Business Development at Woodbine Capital Advisors and Director of Investor Relations at Select Equity Group. Mr. Leidinger began his career in the Quantitative Strategies Group at Goldman Sachs, where he later worked as a Vice President in the Alternative Capital Markets Group.

Mr. Leidinger graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.