Kate Holderness is a Managing Director in the Global Corporate Affairs Group.  She serves as a media spokesperson for the firm and advises on communications issues.

Before joining Blackstone, Ms. Holderness was Vice President of Corporate Communications at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where she led global corporate and financial communications for the company.  Ms. Holderness joined Hewlett Packard from Finsbury, a leading PR firm, where she advised corporations on a wide range of communications challenges.  Ms. Holderness started her career at Lehman Brothers, as an equity research analyst covering semiconductor companies.

Ms. Holderness received her BA in economics from The George Washington University and her MBA from Yale School of Management.