> Stephen Allen Schwarzman (born February 14, 1947) is an American billionaire businessman. He is the chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group, a global private equity firm he established in 1985 with Peter G. Peterson, former chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers and US Secretary of Commerce under President Richard Nixon. Schwarzman was briefly chairman of President [[Donald Trump]]'s Strategic and Policy Forum. > > [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20A.%20Schwarzman)