Stephen A. Schwarzman

Stephen Allen Schwarzman is an American businessman, investor and philanthropist. He is the chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group, a global private equity firm he established in 1985 with former chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers and US Secretary of Commerce Peter G. Peterson. His personal fortune is estimated at $19 billion as of October 2020, ranking him at 64th on the World's Billionaires list. Schwarzman briefly served as Chairman of President Donald Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum.