John Studzinski had joined Blackstone in 2006 as global head of Blackstone Advisory Partners, the company's mergers and acquisitions advisory arm, and he ran that division for nearly a decade.
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31 Facts About John Studzinski
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John Studzinski co-founded and chairs the Arise Foundation, which combats human trafficking and slavery.
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John Studzinski was born in 1956 in Peabody, Massachusetts, a town 15 miles northeast of Boston.
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John Studzinski's parents were working-class Polish immigrants, and his father was a financial manager at General Electric's aircraft-engine division.
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John Studzinski's was a traditional Polish Catholic family and community, and Catholicism and Christianity were a bedrock in his life.
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John Studzinski spent 23 years at the company, in positions of increasing responsibility.
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John Studzinski served as head of the European investment banking division and deputy chairman of Morgan Stanley International.
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In 2006 John Studzinski joined The Blackstone Group, an American multinational corporation based in New York City.
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John Studzinski joined as the senior managing director in its investment and advisory group and as a member of the firm's executive committee.
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John Studzinski was recruited to oversee and develop Blackstone's mergers-and-acquisitions advisory business, Blackstone Advisory Partners, in the United States and Europe, and to open an office in London.
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John Studzinski was personally involved in many of the firm's largest advisory assignments.
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John Studzinski advised multinational corporations, conglomerates, governments, banks, and institutions, on acquisitions, equity investments, restructurings, spin-offs, mergers, and overseas operations.
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In September 2018, John Studzinski was appointed to the newly created roles of Managing Director and Vice Chairman of the global investment-management firm PIMCO.
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John Studzinski is based in PIMCO's executive office in New York City, shuttling to London and to PIMCO's headquarters in Newport Beach, California, and he reports directly to CEO Emmanuel Roman.
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John Studzinski is a philanthropist mainly in three categories: the arts, the homeless, and human rights.
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In 2016, via the foundation John Studzinski partnered with the Hampton Court Palace's Choral Foundation to organize the first Catholic service in the palace's Chapel Royal in over 450 years.
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In 1998 John Studzinski co-launched, and was the first chairman of, Business Action on Homelessness, which is a partnership between Business in the Community, major companies, homeless agencies, and the British government.
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John Studzinski promotes and encourages corporate social responsibility, and organized regular visits for businesspeople to see homeless projects in action.
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John Studzinski has long decried the rising rates of youth unemployment, especially in the wake of the recession, and has called upon businesses and governments to focus on youth employment.
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John Studzinski is Vice Chair of Human Rights Watch, and he developed the European arm of the organization.
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John Studzinski has been director of HRW, a member of its executive committee, and chairman of its investment committee.
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John Studzinski is active in the worldwide effort to combat human trafficking and modern slavery.
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Since April 2016, John Studzinski has been a non-executive director of the Home Office of the UK.
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John Studzinski was formerly on the Policy Advisory Council of the Institute for Public Policy Research.
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John Studzinski is a member of the council of the Royal College of Art, and he is chairman of Create London, a non-profit organization that takes the arts into East London and other areas, connecting artists with communities through an ambitious program of projects.
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John Studzinski is a former trustee of Bowdoin College, and a former board member of the International Youth Foundation.
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John Studzinski is chairman of Benjamin Franklin House in London, and was formerly on the board of trustees of the Royal Parks Foundation.
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