Director

Mr. Friedman has been a Senior Advisor to Blackstone since July 2012. Prior to that, he served as a senior managing director of Blackstone from February 1999 to June 2012 and in addition he was Chief Legal Officer of Blackstone from January 2003 to August 2010. From 1974 until the time he joined Blackstone, Mr. Friedman was a partner with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, a New York law firm. He currently also serves on the board of directors of Axis Capital Holdings Limited, the India Fund, Inc. and FGIC. During the past five years, Mr. Friedman also served on the board of directors of Corp. Group, Houghton Mifflin Holdings, Inc., Northwest Airlines, Inc. and Premcor Inc.