Blackstone Inc at Bank of America Banking and Financials Conference (Virtual) Transcript
Good afternoon, everyone. This is Craig Siegenthaler from Bank of America, and it's my pleasure to introduce Jon Gray. Jon is the President and COO of Blackstone. Jon was instrumental in building Blackstone into the firm it is today and ran their industry-leading Real Estate business from 2005 until 2018. This was a period where the business AUM grew from under $20 billion to now more than $230 billion, so more than 11x.
Jon joined Blackstone back in 1992, a few years after it was founded. Some actually refer to Jon as the LeBron James of the real estate industry, given how successful Blackstone was in real estate.
Good afternoon, Jon. Thank you for joining us. And hopefully, you're going to have a few more good years left at the top than LeBron who could be retiring in a few.
Craig, it's great to be here. I would
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