
	Mr. Quinlan, age 36, will also serve as the CFO of Blackstone&#39;s Real Estate Debt Strategies group, which encompasses all of Blackstone&#39;s commercial real estate debt investment vehicles ($10 billion in assets under management), including the Company. Mr. Quinlan most recently served as Blackstone&#39;s Head of Financial Planning &amp; Business Development, with oversight of management and public reporting, and strategic mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Quinlan was also the CFO for Blackstone Advisory Partners L.P., encompassing Blackstone&#39;s Advisory, Restructuring &amp; Reorganization and Capital Markets businesses. From 2004 until joining Blackstone in 2010, Mr. Quinlan worked as a Director in the Global Principal Investments Group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, focusing on strategic corporate mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and private equity investments. Prior to this, Mr. Quinlan worked in investment banking at Merrill Lynch and PricewaterhouseCoopers Securities. Mr. Quinlan received a B.S. in Finance and English cum laude from Georgetown University and an M.B.A. with distinction from New York University&#39;s Stern School of Business.
