Bennett Goodman
Senior Founding Member, GSO Capital Partners
Bennett Goodman is a founder of GSO Capital Partners, senior managing director of the Blackstone Group and a member of the Blackstone management committee. Since joining Blackstone in 2008, he has focused on the management of GSO, which is Blackstone's credit investment platform with more than $47 billion of assets under management, including hedge funds, mezzanine vehicles, distressed funds and other investments. Before founding GSO in 2005, Goodman was the founder and managing partner of the alternative capital division of Credit Suisse. He is a board member of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Cancer Research Institute and the American Jewish Committee, as well as serving on the investment committee of the Lafayette College endowment. Goodman received the 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award from Euromoney magazine for his achievements in the global capital markets, and the 2012 Money Manager of the Year Award from Institutional Investor. He graduated from Lafayette College and Harvard Business School.
Global Conference 2013
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, philanthropist Bill Gates and Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless discuss advancing prosperity in Africa.