Marcus Felder is a Managing Director and Head of Career Pathways on the Blackstone Operating Team. He focuses on several strategic hiring programs with Blackstone’s portfolio companies. These programs include Blackstone Career Pathways, which aims to broaden the high-quality talent networks from which Blackstone portfolio companies recruit, develop, and advance talent.

Prior to joining Blackstone in 2020, Marcus worked at the Posse Foundation as a program director in the Posse New York office and as the director of the Posse Veterans Program. He also worked in the University Office of K-16 Initiatives and was a founding staff member of the Stella and Charles Guttman Community College at the City University of New York (CUNY). He began his career in the First Deputy Commissioner’s Office at the New York City Department of Transportation. 

Marcus was a 2024 Aspen Institute Economic Mobility Fellow. He holds an SB from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MPA from Syracuse University, and an MSEd in Higher Education Administration from Baruch College.