Cathleen Ellsworth

Managing Director at BlackRock

Cathleen M. Ellsworth, is a Managing Director of the BlackRock Real Assets group within BlackRock Alternative Investors. Ms. Ellsworth is responsible for fund raising, investor relations activities and co-investment, focusing on the global energy and power infrastructure sector. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2017, Ms. Ellsworth was a Managing Director, Partner and Chief Marketing Officer at First Reserve, a leading global private equity investment firm, where she was responsible for the fundraising, investor relations and co-investment programs for both the energy private equity and energy infrastructure funds. Prior to joining First Reserve in 1990, Ms. Ellsworth was an executive in the marketing group at MacKay-Shields Financial Corporation and, prior to that, she spent eight years with Chemical Bank, primarily working in the marketing area of The Chemical Investment Group and its related entitiesy