Anjan Mukherjee | |
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Education | Havard Business School (MBA) |
Occupation(s) | Managing Partner, BayPine |
Known for | Counselor 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]
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]
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]
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]