The US-headquartered business has set out its new Asia leadership structure.

US-listed private equity and alternatives investment giant Blackstone has unveiled a new Asia-Pacific leadership structure, involving a number of promotions.

The promotions include:  

- Chris Heady, the current head of real estate Asia, has been named Blackstone’s chairman of Asia-Pacific; 

- Jan Nielsen, leading the firm’s private equity investing in Southeast Asia, Japan and Korea and chief operating officer for Blackstone Capital Partners in the region, will work with Heady as chief operating officer for all Blackstone businesses and administrative functions in Asia-Pacific; 

- Carol Kim, the ranking investor relations professional in Asia-Pacific, has been named firm-wide COO of investor relations across the region;  

- Daisuke Kitta, head of the real estate group in Japan, has been named head of Japan for all business and administrative functions along with his existing regulatory responsibility for the office; and 

- Susannah Lindenfield, head of international compliance, has been named general counsel for Asia-Pacific and will continue to oversee compliance in the region.  
    
“As our business in Asia and Australia has grown and matured, we reached the scale where upgrading our regional management structure was crucial to our continuing growth and increasing presence in the region,” said Tony James, Blackstone’s president and COO.
    
The firm has more than $330 billion in assets under management, including investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds.