Jon Gray, right, has served as Blackstone's president and chief operating officer since 2018 and is Schwarzman's right-hand man.
Jon Gray, right, has served as Blackstone's president and chief operating officer since 2018 and is Schwarzman's right-hand man. I have served as Blackstone's chief executive for 41 years, one of the longest tenures of any leader of a major American corporation. The question of succession, however, has already been settled. Jon Gray, our president and chief operating officer, will succeed me. He is 56, 23 years my junior.