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Frank Cohen

As of October 6, 2026, Frank Cohen remains chairman of Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust. The vehicle’s biography dates his chairmanship to July 2016 and his CEO service to July 2016 through December 2024. It identifies his Blackstone senior-managing-director and global Core+ leadership positions as former roles. His current board oversight is distinct from Katie Keenan’s current BREIT CEO role. Public evidence 1 Public evidence 2 Reviewed public evidence.

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Known For

  • Helping build Blackstone's Core+ platform and serving as BREIT's founding chairman and CEO.
  • Blackstone-reported involvement in more than $100 billion of real estate transactions, including Equity Office, CarrAmerica Realty, Trizec, and IndCor Properties.
  • Moving from day-to-day executive leadership of BREIT to its board chairmanship in the 2024 succession, with Wesley LePatner becoming CEO on January 1, 2025.

Career

Cohen joined Blackstone in 1996 and held successive leadership positions in Blackstone Real Estate, including oversight of Americas acquisitions and global leadership of Core+. In July 2016, he became both chairman and CEO of BREIT, Blackstone's non-traded real estate investment trust. He held the CEO role until the end of 2024, when Wesley LePatner succeeded him; Cohen remained BREIT's board chair. His career therefore spans both institutional real estate investment operations and a retail-facing, perpetual-life vehicle. Blackstone's transaction figure is a firm-reported measure of deals with which he was involved, not an independently audited personal production total.

Investment Record

Blackstone identifies Equity Office, CarrAmerica Realty, Trizec, and IndCor Properties among the firm's notable investments associated with Cohen's work. The investments illustrate the range of office and industrial platforms in his career. The public biography does not break out his role or the timing and value of his contribution to each transaction, so the page keeps those as examples named by Blackstone rather than attributing them to him as sole decision-maker.

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Sources

Reviewed Profile Update — 2026-10-06

Frank Cohen remains chairman of Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust. The vehicle’s biography dates his chairmanship to July 2016 and his CEO service to July 2016 through December 2024. It identifies his Blackstone senior-managing-director and global Core+ leadership positions as former roles. His current board oversight is distinct from Katie Keenan’s current BREIT CEO role. Public evidence 1 Public evidence 2 Reviewed public evidence.

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