Anjan Mukherjee

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]

Anjan Mukherjee
Education	Havard Business School (MBA)
Occupation(s)	Managing Partner, BayPine
Known for	Counselor to the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury

Early life and education

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]

Business career

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]

Public career

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]