Anjan Mukherjee

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Anjan Mukherjee
EducationHavard Business School (MBA)
Occupation(s)Managing Partner, BayPine
Known forCounselor to the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury

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, and served as Counselor to the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury in the Obama administration. [1] [2]

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Early life and education

He attended Lexington High School. [3] Mukherjee attended Harvard College, where he graduated magna cum laude as a Harry S. Truman Scholar, and received his MBA at Harvard Business School. [4] [5]

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. [6] [7] He led a number of the firm's most notable transactions including its investments in Change Healthcare, AVINTIV, Stiefel Laboratories and Celanese. [8] [9]

Mukherjee also worked at Thomas H. Lee Company and Morgan Stanley, in the mergers and acquisitions department. He joined the Board of Directors of TTEC Holdings in 2009. [4]

In 2019, Mukherjee founded BayPine LP with David Roux. BayPine raised $3.0 billion for its inaugural fund. [10] [11]

Public career

Mukherjee served as Counselor to the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury from 2015 to 2017 under President Obama. [7] He also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Financial Institutions Policy during this time. [12] He advised on a wide range of domestic and international issues related to financial markets and financial institutions policy. [8] He worked to strengthen banking and derivatives regulation and was also involved with improving cyber-security for the financial sector. [13]

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. [14]

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  2. ↑ Stiefel, Charles (2018). Skin Saga: How a Tiny Family Soap Business Evolved Over Six Generations Into the #1 Dermatology Company in the World. Smart Business Network. p. 79. ISBN   9781945389726.
  3. ↑ Joe Mathews (June 8, 1995). "How to Succeed in Local Politics". The Harvard Crimson.
  4. 1 2 "Anjan Mukherjee, Managing Director of the Blackstone Group, Joins TeleTech's Board of Directors". Marketwired. September 21, 2009.
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  6. ↑ "Blackstone Names 11 New Senior Managing Directors". The New York Times . December 21, 2010.
  7. 1 2 Ryan Dezember (March 6, 2015). "Blackstone Deal Maker Joins the Treasury Department". The Wall Street Journal.
  8. 1 2 Erin Griffith (December 4, 2008). "Private Equity Has An Obama Connection". PE Hub.
  9. ↑ "Anjan Mukherjee Departs Blackstone for U.S. Treasury Department". FINalternatives. March 9, 2015.
  10. ↑ McNeely, Allison (8 September 2022). "Blackstone and Silver Lake Alumni Raise $2.2 Billion for Debut Fund". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  11. ↑ Witkowsky, Chris (16 September 2022). "BayPine raises billions for focus on digital transformation". Buyouts. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  12. ↑ "Remarks of Anjan Mukherjee, Counselor to the Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's Cybersecurity Conference 2016". United States Department of the Treasury. April 4, 2016.
  13. ↑ "Cybersecurity". C-SPAN. August 4, 2016.
  14. ↑ Lisa Lerer and Victoria McGrane (November 14, 2008). "Obama econ team filled with Clintonites". Politico.
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