BlackRock executive team & leadership
BlackRock's executive team includes 10 tracked leaders as of 2026-10-14, led by Larry Fink (Chairman and Chief Executive Officer). The org chart, per-leader profiles and full leadership list are below.
BlackRock executive team overview
BlackRock has 10 tracked executives leading key functions including company strategy and operations, a key function, financial strategy, day-to-day operations (as of 2026-10-14). BlackRock, Inc. is an American investment management firm headquartered at 50 Hudson Yards in New York City, with its common stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker BLK. Larry Fink and seven partners founded the company in 1988, and Fink has led it as chairman and chief executive officer ever since. It manages money for institutions and individuals through its iShares exchange-traded funds, index and active strategies, and a private markets platform that grew with the acquisitions of Global Infrastructure Partners, Preqin and HPS Investment Partners, the last of which closed on July 1, 2025. It also sells technology: Aladdin, its investment and risk management platform, is licensed to other asset owners and managers. The 2025 annual report lists total revenue of 24.2 billion dollars and 14.0 trillion dollars of assets under management at December 31, 2025, with approximately 24,900 employees in more than 30 countries. Assets reached 15.3 trillion dollars at June 30, 2026, after record first half net inflows of 321 billion dollars.
BlackRock executive team org chart
Larry FinkChairman and Chief Executive Officer- RK
Rob KapitoPresident and Director - MSMartin SmallChief Financial Officer and Global Head of Corporate Strategy
- RGRob GoldsteinChief Operating Officer
- RSRam SubramaniamChief Marketing Officer and Global Head of Digital Wealth
- CMChris MeadeGeneral Counsel and Chief Legal Officer
- PSPierre SarrauChief Risk Officer and Head of Risk & Quantitative Analysis
- CHCaroline HellerGlobal Head of Human Resources
- DSDerek SteinGlobal Head of Technology & Operations
- RRRick RiederChief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income
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Employees by management level
| Name | Profiles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Global Executive Committee | 49 | 0.1% |
| Managing directors | 1,900 | 5.5% |
| Directors | 5,200 | 15% |
| Vice presidents | 9,500 | 27% |
| Associates and analysts | 18,042 | 52% |
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Leadership team
| Leader | Location | Profile | |
|---|---|---|---|
| LFLarry FinkChairman and Chief Executive Officer | ••••@blackrock.com | Profile → | |
| RKRob KapitoPresident and Director | ••••@blackrock.com | Profile → | |
| MSMartin SmallChief Financial Officer and Global Head of Corporate Strategy | ••••@blackrock.com | Profile → | |
| RGRob GoldsteinChief Operating Officer | ••••@blackrock.com | Profile → | |
| RSRam SubramaniamChief Marketing Officer and Global Head of Digital Wealth | ••••@blackrock.com | Profile → | |
| CMChris MeadeGeneral Counsel and Chief Legal Officer | ••••@blackrock.com | Profile → | |
| PSPierre SarrauChief Risk Officer and Head of Risk & Quantitative Analysis | ••••@blackrock.com | Profile → | |
| CHCaroline HellerGlobal Head of Human Resources | ••••@blackrock.com | Profile → | |
| DSDerek SteinGlobal Head of Technology & Operations | ••••@blackrock.com | Profile → | |
| RRRick RiederChief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income | ••••@blackrock.com | Profile → |
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BlackRock executive team roles
Larry Fink · full profile →
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Laurence D. Fink is chairman and chief executive officer of BlackRock, which he founded with seven partners in 1988 and has led since. Under his leadership the firm has become the largest investment manager in the world by assets, with 14.0 trillion dollars under management at the end of 2025. He has been a director since 1999 and chairs the Global Executive Committee. Before BlackRock he was a managing director of The First Boston Corporation and a member of its management committee. Outside the firm he co-chairs the board of trustees of the World Economic Forum and NYU Langone Medical Center. He earned a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1974 and an MBA from UCLA in 1976.
Rob Kapito · full profile →
President and Director
Rob Kapito is president and a director of BlackRock, a member of its Global Executive Committee and chairman of the Global Operating Committee. He oversees the firm's key operating units day to day, including investment strategies, client businesses, technology and operations, and risk and quantitative analysis, and he is a director of iShares Inc. Before taking his current role in 2007 he headed the Portfolio Management Group, which covered fixed income, equity, liquidity and alternative investments. He was one of the founding partners in 1988, coming from The First Boston Corporation, where he was a vice president in the Mortgage Products Group. He earned a BS in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1979 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1983.
Martin Small · full profile →
Chief Financial Officer and Global Head of Corporate Strategy
Martin Small is chief financial officer of BlackRock and its global head of corporate strategy, and a member of the Global Executive Committee. He leads accounting and controllership, financial planning and analysis, tax, treasury, investor relations, corporate development and corporate strategy. He joined BlackRock in 2006 in the Legal and Compliance Department. Before that he was a corporate lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York, and he began his career as a federal law clerk to Judge Richard Owen of the Southern District of New York. He holds a BA from Brown University and a JD from New York University School of Law.
Rob Goldstein · full profile →
Chief Operating Officer
Robert Goldstein is chief operating officer of BlackRock, a member of the Global Executive Committee and co-chair of the Global Operating Committee. He helps oversee the firm's day to day global business, including the connections between its investment, client, risk and technology functions, and he is responsible for Aladdin and the firm's operating and technology platforms. Before becoming chief operating officer in 2014 he headed the Institutional Client Business. He joined BlackRock in 1994 as an analyst in the Portfolio Analytics Group and later worked as a risk advisor to mortgage and insurance clients, helping build the firm's risk management platform. He earned a BS in economics, magna cum laude, from Binghamton University in 1994.
Ram Subramaniam · full profile →
Chief Marketing Officer and Global Head of Digital Wealth
Ram Subramaniam is chief marketing officer of BlackRock, global head of digital wealth and a member of the Global Executive Committee. He came from Fidelity Investments, where he was head of wealth management and digital advice and president of Fidelity Personal and Workplace Advisors, overseeing more than 600 billion dollars in advisory assets, and earlier president of Fidelity Brokerage Services, a retail brokerage with more than 25 million customer accounts. Before Fidelity he held executive roles in wealth management, brokerage and strategy at Morgan Stanley and TD Ameritrade. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, an MS in industrial engineering from North Carolina State University and a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
Chris Meade · full profile →
General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer
Christopher J. Meade is general counsel and chief legal officer of BlackRock and a member of the Global Executive Committee, where he leads the Legal and Compliance group. He joined from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he was general counsel and head of the Treasury Legal Division, advising the Treasury Secretary on domestic finance, international economic affairs, terrorism finance, financial crimes enforcement and tax policy, and received the Alexander Hamilton Award. Earlier he was a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, where he argued four cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and he clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens. He holds an AB from Princeton University and a JD from NYU Law School, both magna cum laude.
Pierre Sarrau · full profile →
Chief Risk Officer and Head of Risk & Quantitative Analysis
Pierre Sarrau is chief risk officer and head of Risk & Quantitative Analysis at BlackRock, a member of the Global Executive Committee and chair of its Enterprise Risk Committee. He took the role in January 2026 after serving as chief investment officer and global co-head of Multi-Asset Strategies & Solutions, the group behind the firm's portfolio construction and asset allocation. His service dates back to 2001 at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, which merged with BlackRock in 2006, and he earlier oversaw multi-asset activities within Risk & Quantitative Analysis and led the development of multi-asset risk analytics in Aladdin. He began his career as head of risk at a French bank. He holds a Diplome d'Ingenieur from Ecole Centrale de Lyon, with diplomas from Cambridge University and the London School of Economics.
Caroline Heller · full profile →
Global Head of Human Resources
Caroline Heller is global head of human resources at BlackRock and a member of the Global Executive Committee. She joined the firm in May 2021 and was head of talent and business partners before taking the top HR role. She previously spent more than 20 years at Goldman Sachs in Human Capital Management, where she led the business partner and talent acquisition teams, ran talent management, and was head of HCM for the Global Markets Division. She started out in recruiting at Credit Suisse First Boston. She earned a BA in psychology from Northwestern University in 1999.
Derek Stein · full profile →
Global Head of Technology & Operations
Derek Stein is global head of technology and operations at BlackRock, responsible for the firm's worldwide operations across asset classes and geographies, a member of the Global Executive Committee, and president and chief executive officer of BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. He joined Barclays Global Investors in 2005 as chief information officer and came to BlackRock with the 2009 merger. Before that he was an executive vice president at Knight Capital, overseeing operations, technology, strategy and risk, and spent 10 years at Merrill Lynch running its institutional global services organization. He began as a chartered accountant and fund manager in South Africa and holds a BA in computer science and an MS in finance from the University of the Witwatersrand.
Rick Rieder · full profile →
Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income
Rick Rieder is chief investment officer of global fixed income at BlackRock, head of the Fundamental Fixed Income business and head of the Global Allocation Investment Team, responsible for roughly 2.4 trillion dollars in assets. He is a member of the Global Executive Committee and its investment sub-committee and chairs the firm-wide BlackRock Investment Council. He joined in 2009 from R3 Capital Partners, where he was president and chief executive officer, after two decades at Lehman Brothers from 1987 to 2008, where he ran the Global Principal Strategies team and the firm's credit businesses. He has served as vice chairman of the U.S. Treasury Borrowing Committee. He earned a BBA in finance from Emory University in 1983 and an MBA from the Wharton School in 1987.