- Blackstone (NYSE:BX -0.2%) hires Christine Feng, a former senior executive at Amazon focused on mergers and acquisitions, as senior managing director.
- Based in San Francisco, she'll focus on technology investing for Blackstone Tactical Opportunities, BX's opportunistic investing platform, and will work closely with the company's GSO credit investing platform.
- Feng led data and analytics M&A in corporate development at Amazon Web Services, where she sourced, evaluated, negotiated, and executed acquisitions and investments to support AWS's strategic priorities. Before joining AWS, she was a senior member of the corporate development team at Microsoft where she evaluated and executed acquisitions and divestitures across the company's business units.
- Last week, Blackstone hired Gene Lockhart, former CEO and president of Mastercard, as a senior advisor with focus on Blackstone Growth and Blackstone Tactical Opportunities.