The 2007 Yale School of Management Private Equity Conference

Hamilton (“Tony”) E. James is President, Chief Operating Officer of Blackstone, and a Member of the Board of Directors of Blackstone Group Management. He is also a Member of Blackstone’s Management and Executive Committees and sits on each of the firm’s investment committees.

Prior to joining Blackstone Mr. James was Chairman of Global Investment Banking and Private Equity at Credit Suisse First Boston and a Member of the Executive Board. Previously, Mr. James was the Chairman of DLJ’s Banking Group, responsible for all the firm’s investment banking and merchant banking activities. Mr. James joined DLJ in 1975 as an Investment Banking Associate. He became head of DLJ’s global M&A group in 1982, founded DLJ Merchant Banking, Inc. in 1985, and was named Chairman of the Banking Group in 1995. He is a Director of Costco Wholesale Corporation and Swift River Investments, Inc., and has served on a number of other corporate Boards. Mr. James is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of American Ballet Theatre, Trustee and Member of The Executive Committee of The Second Stage Theatre, Vice Chairman of Coldwater Conservations Fund, and Trustee of Woods Hole Oceanographic. He is also Chairman of the Executive Committee of Trout Unlimited, a Trustee of Choate Rosemary Hall School and is actively involved in various capacities with Harvard University. Mr. James graduated with a B.A. from Harvard College an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.