Farez Alibay

Farez Alibay is a Managing Director in Blackstone's Asset Based Finance Group, part of the firm's Structured Finance Group, which he joined in 2018. In that role he focuses on credit origination and underwriting across asset-based and structured-finance opportunities. Blackstone is one of the world's largest alternative-asset managers, and Alibay sits on the credit/structured side of the business rather than its private-equity or venture arms.

Before Blackstone, Alibay was a Director of Investments at Guggenheim Life and Annuity Company, where he led direct investments across multiple asset classes — including structured products, corporate debt, and equity. (This "Director of Investments" title, carried over into the source stub, reflects his earlier Guggenheim role rather than his current Blackstone title.) Earlier in his career he held positions at EARNEST Partners and Lehman Brothers.

On the education side, Alibay holds a BS in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology and an MEng in Computer Science from Cornell University, giving him a technical foundation unusual for a credit investor. He later earned an MBA from The Wharton School (attended 2009–2011), where he was awarded a Robert Toigo Foundation Fellowship. He is also a CFA charterholder.

Separately from his institutional role, Alibay appears on startup-investor databases (e.g., Foundersuite, Connected Investors) categorized as an angel investor focused on seed-stage deals. This is the basis for the "Angel Investor / Seed Round" framing in the source data; it is not part of his stated Blackstone mandate.

• Professional mandate (Blackstone): Credit origination and underwriting in asset-based finance and structured products — a debt/structured-finance discipline, not equity venture investing.
• Prior institutional focus (Guggenheim): Direct investments across structured products, corporate debt, and equity — a multi-asset, credit-oriented approach.
• Angel-investor listing: Third-party databases classify him as a seed-stage angel investor. No publicly stated personal thesis, check size, or target-company profile could be found from a primary source.
• Likely areas of affinity: Given his computer-science degrees (IIT, Cornell) and finance/structured-credit career, technology and fintech-adjacent ideas are plausible interest areas — but this is inference, not a documented, self-stated thesis.