BlackRock managing director found an out exec as a role model early in his career


Alan Mason

Managing Director, Blackrock

Alan Mason took a wending route to become an executive at one of the world’s largest financial services firms, in charge of an asset portfolio of $2.5 trillion. After growing up in a small town in the South, he enjoyed a career as a concert oboist and spent time as an ethnomusicologist. His nontraditional background served him well while working at Barclays Global Investors during its 2009 acquisition by Blackrock. It helped him successfully meld the two…

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