Anjan Mukherjee is an American businessman and investor. He is the Managing Partner and founder of the investment firm BayPine. Previously, he was a senior executive at the

Blackstone Group Blackstone Inc. is an American alternative investment management company based in New York City. It was founded in 1985 as a mergers and acquisitions firm by Peter Peterson and Stephen Schwarzman, who had previously worked together at Lehman ...

, and served as Counselor to the Secretary of the

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in the

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Early life and education

He attended Lexington High School. Mukherjee attended

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, where he graduated magna cum laude as a Harry S. Truman Scholar, and received his MBA at

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate school, graduate business school of Harvard University, a Private university, private Ivy League research university. Located in Allston, Massachusetts, HBS owns Harvard Business Publishing, which p ...

Business career

Mukherjee joined the Blackstone Group in 2001 and was a Senior Managing Director in the private equity department and was a member of its Investment Committee. He led a number of the firm's most notable transactions including its investments in

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, AVINTIV,

Stiefel Laboratories Stiefel Laboratories Inc. was an American dermatological pharmaceutical company, with its global headquarters in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. It makes products such as Duac and Oilatum. Stiefel was acquired by GSK plc at a price of ...

and

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. Mukherjee also worked at Thomas H. Lee Company and

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, in the mergers and acquisitions department. He joined the Board of Directors of TTEC Holdings in 2009. In 2019, Mukherjee founded BayPine LP with David Roux. BayPine raised $3.0 billion for its inaugural fund.

Public career

Mukherjee served as Counselor to the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury from 2015 to 2017 under

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. He also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Financial Institutions Policy during this time. He advised on a wide range of domestic and international issues related to financial markets and financial institutions policy. He worked to strengthen banking and derivatives regulation and was also involved with improving cyber-security for the financial sector. Mukherjee took a leave of absence from Blackstone in 2008 to join the Presidential Transition Team of Barack Obama focusing on economic policy and international trade issues.

References

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