Paul C. Schorr IV ("Chip"), Senior Managing Director, The Blackstone Group

Paul C. Schorr IV ("Chip") is a Senior Managing Director in the Corporate Private Equity group, where he principally concentrates on investments in technology.

Before joining Blackstone in 2005, Mr. Schorr was a Managing Partner of Citigroup Venture Capital in New York where he was responsible for the firm's technology/ telecommunications practice. Mr. Schorr was instrumental in such transactions as Fairchild Semiconductor, ChipPAC, Intersil, AMI Semiconductor, Worldspan, NTelos and MagnaChip. He had been with Citigroup Venture Capital for nine years.

Mr. Schorr received his MBA with honors from Harvard Business School and a BSFS magna cum laude from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Travelport Inc., and a member of the board of directors of Freescale Semiconductor, AMI Semiconductor, and MagnaChip. Mr. Schorr is also a member of the board of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

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