J. Tomilson Hill Biography

In 1993 Hill joined Blackstone where he served as co-head of the corporate mergers and acquisitions advisory group. In 2007 he became vice chairman of the firm. Since 2000 he has served as president and chief executive of Blackstone's hedge fund business Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (BAAM) and has grown that business's assets under management from $1.3 billion in 2000 to $56 billion as of December 31 2013.
BAAM is currently the world's largest discretionary allocator to hedge funds with investors including mostly corporate and public pension funds sovereign wealth funds and central banks. The business's growth from 2007 to 2013 at a time when the industry generally contracted substantially was featured in a June 2013 Harvard Business Review case study. Hill has appeared at the 2014 Credit Suisse Financial Services Forum the 2011 Milken Institute Global Conference and the 2012 Bloomberg Hedge Fund Summit among others. In 2014 Hill was inducted into Institutional Investor's Alpha's Hedge Fund Hall of Fame.
Hill is the chairman of Lincoln Center Theater and has served as chairman of the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. He serves on the board of directors of the Metropolitan Museum of Art the Council on Foreign Relations the Telluride Foundation the Advantage Testing Foundation and Our Lady Queen of Angels School a Catholic school in East Harlem that is part of the Partnership for Inner-City Education school network.

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