Blackstone announced that it has appointed Jon Korngold as a senior managing director and head of its Growth Equity investing platform. In his new role, Korngold will be responsible for developing and running this new platform, which will provide capital to companies during the critical phase between venture capital investments and traditional buyouts. A former senior leader at General Atlantic, Korngold was a member of the firm's Management Committee, chairman of the Portfolio Committee and global head of the firm's financial services and healthcare sectors. During his 18-year tenure at General Atlantic, he sourced and executed billions of dollars of growth equity investments across the technology services, enterprise software, healthcare, financial services and consumer sectors. Before General Atlantic, he was with Goldman Sachs' Principal Investing and M&A groups in London and New York.