Blackstone announced that Jim Breyer has joined its board of directors. He is founder and CEO of Breyer Capital, focused on catalyzing high-impact entrepreneurs in the U.S. and China. Over the course of his career, Mr. Breyer has been an investor in over thirty consumer internet, media, and technology companies that have completed highly successful public offerings or successful mergers. In addition to founding Breyer Capital in 2006, Mr. Breyer also served as managing partner at Accel Partners from 1995 to 2011, where he led the first institutional venture capital investment in Facebook in 2005 and joined the Facebook board. Previously, he also served as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company.