Founder Profile
Ralph Schlosstein
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Ralph Schlosstein?
Ralph Schlosstein is a founder of BlackRock, Inc., which was founded in 1988 with Larry Fink, Robert S. Kapito, Susan Wagner, Barbara Novick, Ben Golub, Hugh Frater and Keith Anderson.
- Company founded
- BlackRock, Inc.
- Founded
- 1988
- Co-founders
- Larry Fink, Robert S. Kapito, Susan Wagner, Barbara Novick, Ben Golub, Hugh Frater and Keith Anderson
Background
Ralph L. Schlosstein co-founded BlackRock in 1988 after working as a managing director in investment banking at Lehman Brothers. He was BlackRock's President until 2007 and later became CEO of the independent investment bank Evercore.
Founding Story
Schlosstein brought corporate finance and public policy experience to the founding team; before Lehman he worked at the US Treasury and on the White House domestic policy staff during the Carter administration. As BlackRock's President he helped run the business side of the firm through the PNC years, the 1999 IPO and the 2006 MLIM merger. He left in 2007, became CEO of Evercore in 2009 and later served as its Chairman Emeritus. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
Sources
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- BlackRock 2025 Annual Report PDF (BlackRock, Inc.)
- BlackRock 2025 Form 10-K (BlackRock, Inc.)