Ronald E. Blaylock is a Managing Partner of GenNx360 Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on sponsoring buyouts of middle market industrial companies. Prior to Launching GenNx360, Ron founded and managed Blaylock & Company, one of the top minority-owned investment banking firms in the country. The firm underwrote more than $150 billion in debt/equity securities in 2005 alone. Blaylock & Company participated in transactions for a diverse, blue-chip roster of clients that included AT&T, Boeing, CIT, GE, Google, Time Warner, UPS, and Verizon, among other Fortune 500 companies. Prior to founding the investment banking firm in 1993, Ron held executive management positions with Paine Webber and CitiGroup.

Ronald serves on the boards of numerous corporate and non-profit organizations, including W.R. Berkley, Inc., Radio One, Inc., CarMax, Inc., NYU Stern School of Business, and the NYU Board of Trustees. In 1999, Blaylock was voted Capital Raiser of the Year by Corporate Finance Magazine. In 2005, he was named one of the Most Powerful Blacks on Wall Street by Black Enterprise Magazine and was also named Man of the Year by the Covenant House for his charity work with that organization.

Ron earned his M.B.A. in finance from NYU’s Stern School of Business and his B.S. in Finance from Georgetown University.