John P. McCormick

John was Global Group Head of Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (“BAAM”), the $82 billion AUM hedge fund and asset management division of The Blackstone Group, and a member of Blackstone’s firm-wide Operating Committee. Under John’s leadership, BAAM achieved record financial results, nearly doubling revenue to $1.3 billion in four years, while achieving record distributable and fee-related earnings and delivering strong performance for the firm’s institutional LPs. John is also credited with launching Blackstone’s data science initiative and playing a leading role in the firm’s move into democratized alternatives. Over the course of his almost 17-year career at BAAM, John was responsible for several business units, including GP Stakes & Seeding, Global Business Development, Global Strategy, and Product Development.

Prior to joining Blackstone in 2005, John was an Associate Principal in the Financial Institutions practice at McKinsey & Company, an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell, and a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. John holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.A. from Vassar College.

John spent the spring semester of 2022 as an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School, where he led a reading group on emerging technologies and received the 2022 Alumni Achievement Award from the Yale Law and Business Society.