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Jill A. Greenthal is a Senior Advisor in Private Equity at the Blackstone Group. Prior to September 2007, Ms. Greenthal was a Senior Managing Director in the Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions Advisory group at Blackstone. She is based in Boston.
Before joining Blackstone in 2003, Ms. Greenthal was Co-Head of the Global Media Group, Co-Head of the Boston Office and a member of the Executive Board of Investment Banking at Credit Suisse First Boston. Ms. Greenthal was also Co-Head of the Boston office of Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette, before its acquisition by CSFB. Prior to joining DLJ, she was Head of the Media Group at Lehman Brothers.
Ms. Greenthal has advised and financed media companies for over 20 years, having worked in all sectors of the business. Notable transactions include the $69.9 billion acquisition of Tele-Communications, Inc. by AT&T Corp; the consensual restructuring of NTL, Inc.; the investment by Microsoft Corporation into AT&T related to the acquisition of Media One; the sale of the Chronicle Publishing Company, including the sale of the San Francisco Chronicle to Hearst Corporation; the sale of Central Newspapers to Gannett; the acquisition of Overture Services by Yahoo! Inc.; the merger of Time Incorporated with Warner Communications; and the investments by Itochu, Toshiba and US West into Time Warner Entertainment. She recently advised Comcast Corporation in connection with their joint acquisition of Adelphia with Time Warner and also advised the independent directors of Fox on the buyout of the company by News Corporation.
Ms. Greenthal graduated as a member of The Academy from Simmons College and received an MBA from Harvard Business School. Ms. Greenthal is on the Board of Directors of Freedom Communications, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Orbitz Worldwide and Universal Orlando. Ms. Greenthal also serves on the Investment Committee of Noble and Greenough School. | 