Nik Morandi is a Senior Managing Director within Blackstone’s Strategic Partners team and leads the private equity investment activities for Strategic Partners in Europe. Nik is based in London.

Prior to joining Blackstone, Nik led the secondaries business in Europe for the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board since joining the firm in 2016, with responsibility for all transaction-related activities. Before joining CPPIB, he was a Partner at Pantheon and a member of the firm’s global secondaries investment committee, where he also led the firm’s Portfolio Strategy and Research teams. Prior to joining Pantheon in 2007, Nik spent a number of years in the M&A departments of both UBS and Société Générale.

Nik received a BSc in Economics from the LSE and an MPhil in European Politics and Economics from Oxford University.