Bill Mulrow is currently a Senior Advisor at Blackstone. Before rejoining Blackstone in 2017, he served as Secretary to Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, the highest appointive office in New York State government and the Governor’s chief aide.
Mr. Mulrow’s career spans more than three decades in finance, business, government and academia. He has worked in several senior positions in finance and business as well as having served in a broad array of government and academic positions.
Mr. Mulrow’s financial and business experience includes most recently being a Senior Managing Director at Blackstone as well as senior positions previously at Paladin Capital Group, Citi, Rothschild, and Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette Securities Corporation. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Con Edison, JBG Smith, Titan Mining Corporation, and on the Trust and Investment Committee of M&T Bank. He served previously on the Boards of Hudson Valley Bank and Application Security, Inc.
In addition to his career in finance and business, Mr. Mulrow has served in numerous government positions including as Chairman of the New York State Housing Finance Agency, Chairman of the State of New York Mortgage Agency, Commissioner of the Special Commission on Judicial Compensation, Director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York, Director of the Municipal Assistance Corporation for the City of New York, Director of the United Nations Development Corporation, Chairman of the Westchester County Industrial Development Agency, and Chairman of the New York City Rent Guidelines Board.
Mr. Mulrow has served in a number of academic posts including the Board of Advisors for the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, the Board of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, and Chairman of the Board of the Fordham Preparatory School. He has also been awarded several civic and community awards including the Humanitarian Award of the North American Boards of Rabbis and the Roy Wilkins Humanitarian Award of the New York State NAACP.
Mr. Mulrow is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School and of Yale College where he graduated Cum Laude and was a Rhodes Scholar finalist.