Michael Nash

Nash is a senior managing director at Blackstone and the chief investment officer of Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies. In addition, he is a member of the Real Estate Investment Committee for both Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies and Blackstone Real Estate Advisors and is the executive chairman of Blackstone Mortgage Trust, a NYSE listed REIT, the CEO and chairman of the board of the Blackstone Real Estate Income Funds, which is a complex of registered closed-end funds. Prior to joining Blackstone, Nash was with Merrill Lynch where he led the firm’s Real Estate Principal Investment Group - Americas, and has held various positions with Barclays Bank, Bank of Nova Scotia and Deloitte Haskins & Sells. Nash received a degree from State University of New York at Albany, as well as an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University.