Subject: Larry Guffey
From: "Devon Archer" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 01:04:38 +0000

Lawrence Guffey

Mr. Guffey recently retired in 2013 as a Senior Managing Director (Partner) in the private equity group at The Blackstone Group, for whom he worked for 23 years, the last 10 of which as one of the firm’s senior partners in Europe. Mr Guffey was made a partner of the firm in 2000 at the age of 31. Mr. Guffey led or co-led Blackstone’s efforts in virtually all media and communications-related investments and had day-today responsibility for management of Blackstone Communications Advisors.

After joining Blackstone in 1991, Mr. Guffey was involved in the execution of Blackstone’s investments in Axtel, Bresnan Communications, Centennial Communications, Cine UK/UGC, Crowley Digital/Salmon PCS, CommNet Cellular, CTI Holdings, Deutsche Telekom iPCS, Grupo Iusacell, LiveWire and related follow ons, New Skies, PaeTec, TDC, Time Warner-Fanch Cable JVs, Universo Online, US Radio and the firm’s distressed debt investments in Adelphia Communications, Kabel BW, Charter Communications, Kabelnetz NRW and Primacom. Mr Guffey has served as lead Blackstone director on the boards of 12 different companies in 8 different countries. Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Guffey worked in the Real Estate Acquisitions Group at Trammell Crow Ventures.

Mr. Guffey graduated magna cum laude from Rice University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Currently Mr. Guffey is on the board of T-Mobile USA. He also serves as a Director of the Paris Review, the literary foundation, and the main Board of Trustees and on the Humanities Advisory Board at Rice University.