Christopher Striano has served as the Chief Financial Officer of BXINFRA since December 2024. Mr. Striano also serves as the Chief Financial Officer of Blackstone Private Equity Strategies Fund L.P. and as a Senior Managing Director and the Chief Operating Officer of Global Finance at Blackstone. Mr. Striano provides supervisory oversight to the day-to-day administration of Finance and is responsible for Portfolio Management, Investment & Corporate Operations, Global Fund Finance, Enterprise Operations and Global Corporate Services groups. Previously he served as Blackstone’s Chief Accounting Officer also responsible for the Firm’s accounting policy and SEC Reporting. Prior to that, Mr. Striano served as Head of the firm’s Financial Planning and Analysis group, where his responsibilities included the firm’s global forecast process, business unit and firm-wide strategic planning, managing ratings agency relationships, new business initiatives and various special projects. Mr. Striano received a B.S. in Accounting with a minor in Finance from St. John’s University and serves as a trustee at Bayshore Hackensack Meridian Hospital in New Jersey.

Kate O’Neil has served as the Chief Legal Officer of BXINFRA since September 2024. She is a Managing Director with Blackstone. Ms. O’Neil also serves as the Deputy Chief Legal Officer and Chief Legal Officer & Secretary of Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc. and Blackstone Private Equity Strategies Fund L.P., respectively, Blackstone’s individual investor focused vehicles for real estate and private equity strategies. Prior to joining Blackstone in 2022, Ms. O’Neil was an attorney with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, where she focused on alternative investment products, including registered funds, private funds, REITs and BDCs. Ms. O’Neil received a B.S., magna cum laude, in Financial Management from Clemson University and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Matthew Runkle has served as the Head of Acquisitions of BXINFRA since March 2025 and the President of BXINFRA since January 2026. He is also a Senior Managing Director and Head of Power and Midstream within Blackstone’s Infrastructure group. Since joining Blackstone in 2017, Mr. Runkle has been involved in the execution of Blackstone investments, including Invenergy Renewables, a partnership with NextEra, Cheniere Energy Partners, and Tallgrass Energy. Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Runkle spent 15 years at ArcLight Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on energy infrastructure investments. While at ArcLight, Mr. Runkle sourced, executed, and actively managed investments in assets and companies across the power and midstream sectors. Prior to that, Mr. Runkle began his career at The NorthBridge Group as an analyst, where he focused on corporate strategy for vertically integrated utilities. Mr. Runkle serves as a director of Tallgrass Energy and Cheniere Energy Inc. Mr. Runkle received a B.S. in Geology and Geophysics from Yale University.

Gregory Blank has served as the Chief Executive Officer of BXINFRA and a member of the Board of Directors since August 2024. He is also a member of the BXINFRA Investment Committee. Mr. Blank is a Senior Managing Director in the Infrastructure Group where he focuses on investments in the Digital Infrastructure sector. Since joining Blackstone, Mr. Blank has worked in both the New York and Hong Kong offices in the Private Equity and Infrastructure groups; and has been involved in the execution of numerous Blackstone investments, including QTS Realty Trust, AirTrunk Signature Aviation, Phoenix Tower International, Hotwire Communications, NCR, Kronos, Paysafe, Blue Yonder, Ipreo, and Optiv. Prior to joining Blackstone, Mr. Blank was an associate at Texas Pacific Group (TPG) in San Francisco where he was involved in the evaluation and execution of private equity transactions. Prior to that, Mr. Blank worked in investment banking at Goldman, Sachs & Co. focused on Technology, Media and Telecommunications clients. Mr. Blank serves on the board of directors of QTS Realty Trust, AirTrunk and Signature Aviation. Mr. Blank received an B.A. in Economics from Harvard College, where he graduated magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Blank also earned an M.B.A. with High Distinction from the Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a Baker Scholar.

Paul Schlaack has served as the Chief Operating Officer of BXINFRA since September 2024. He is also Chief Operating Officer of Blackstone’s Infrastructure group and a Senior Managing Director. Prior to helping launch Blackstone’s Infrastructure business in 2017, Mr. Schlaack was the Chief Operating Officer of Blackstone’s Institutional Client Solutions group for six years, where he coordinated the marketing and investor relations functions for all of Blackstone’s investment products globally. Prior to that, Mr. Schlaack worked for twelve years in Blackstone’s financial advisory group, where he helped to execute several M&A transactions across a variety of industries. Mr. Schlaack received a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated magna cum laude.

Sean Klimczak has served as the Chairperson of BXINFRA and a member of the Board of Directors since September 2024. He is also a member of BXINFRA’s Investment Committee, the Global Head of Infrastructure and a Senior Managing Director at Blackstone. Since joining Blackstone in 2005, Mr. Klimczak has been involved in the execution of numerous Blackstone investments, including, Airtrunk, Applegreen, Autostrade per I’Italia (ASPI), Carrix, Cheniere Energy Partners, FirstEnergy, Hotwire Communications, Invenergy Renewables, Mundys, Phoenix Tower International, QTS Realty Trust, Safe Harbor Marinas, Signature Aviation, Tallgrass Energy, Sithe Global, Fisterra, Custom Truck One Source, Meerwind, GridLiance, and Transmission Developers. Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Klimczak was an associate at Madison Dearborn Partners. Prior to that, Mr. Klimczak worked in the Mergers & Acquisitions department of Morgan Stanley & Company’s Investment Banking Division. Mr. Klimczak serves as a director of The Blackstone Charitable Foundation. He also serves as a member of the board of trustees of Saint David’s School and as Chairman of the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business Advisory Council. Mr. Klimczak was named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2015. Mr. Klimczak received a B.B.A. in Finance and Business Economics from the University of Notre Dame, where he graduated summa cum laude and was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma, and an M.B.A. with High Distinction from Harvard Business School, where he graduated with the highest academic standing in his class and was selected as a Baker Scholar, a John L. Loeb Fellow, a Henry Ford II Scholar and a William J. Carey Scholar.

Brett O’Brien has served as BXINFRA’s Head of Shareholder Relations since January 2026. She is also a Managing Director on Blackstone’s ICS team where she focuses on product development, capital raising, and investor and distributor relationships for BXINFRA. Prior to joining Blackstone in 2024, Ms. O’Brien was a Principal on the Investor Relations team at Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) where she led product strategy for the firm , focusing on both product development and fundraising. Prior to GIP, Ms. O’Brien was a Director at BlackRock and member of the BlackRock Alternatives Specialists team, where she was responsible for distribution of the firm’s global private credit platform to institutional investors in the U.S. and Canada. Ms. O’Brien began her career in finance at Paulson & Co. where she was a Vice President on the US Institutional Investor Relations team. Ms. O’Brien received a B.A. in History from Boston College and an M.B.A. from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.