Scott Bommer is a Senior Managing Director of Blackstone and Chief Investment Officer of Blackstone’s Horizon platform. He will also work closely with the Strategic Alliance Platform. Mr. Bommer was previously the Founder and CEO of SAB Capital Management, an institutional hedge fund he managed for over 17 years. Since 2016, he has managed his Family Office which focuses on venture capital and late stage growth investing as well as public equities. At SAB, Mr. Bommer invested across multiple asset classes including Equities, Distressed Debt, and Mortgages with a primary focus on special situations equities and a “value and growth at a discount” approach, and his investments spanned a wide range of industries including Financials, Consumer, Healthcare, Industrials, and TMT (Technology, Media, and Telecommunications), and included backing three private startup reinsurers. Before launching SAB, he began his career as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs, an Associate at McKinsey & Co., and a Portfolio Manager at Siegler, Collery & Co. Mr. Bommer received a B.A. with Distinction in Quantitative Economics from Stanford University, and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School, and spent a year in Tokyo on a Luce Scholarship. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Robin Hood Foundation. In addition, with his wife he endowed The Scott & Donya Bommer Professorship in Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University.