The Zaf Group

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• The Zaf Group Mike Zafirovski is founder/ president of The Zaf Group, a private equity advisory and investment firm. The Blackstone Group is the firm's principal client where Mike is Chairman and Director of multiple Blackstone companies, as well as Executive Advisor assisting with CEO recruitment and appraisal of new deal opportunities. The Zaf Group team provides targeted portfolio support to Blackstone company CEOs to drive strategic and operational value creation. Outside of Blackstone, Mike also sits on the Board of Directors of Boeing (since 2004) and Stericycle. Previously, in a 34-year corporate career, Mike served 21 years as CEO/President at Nortel, Motorola, and five GE businesses in the high tech, industrial, consumer, and financial services industries. In 21 years of P&L responsibility, revenue growth exceeded 8% per year and EBITDA gains averaged 350 BPs per year. Among his philanthropic activities, he is a Founding Director of Macedonia 2025, an organization dedicated to enhancing the countrys economic and democracy development; Vice Chairman for the Academy of Urban School Leadership, an organization that helps turn around the most challenged public schools in Chicago; and Board Member of UI Labs, a Chicago-based research and commercialization collaborative between Universities and industry. In addition to The Zaf Groups primary focus of driving value creation in Blackstone companies, the firm seeks to direct-invest as General Partner in mid-market companies in the industrial, consumer, and tech-enabled sectors ($50-250M deal value), through the Zafirovski Family Office and private Pledge Fund support.
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  Headquarters:272 East Deerpath Road , Lake Forest, Illinois, United States

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  Phone Number: +1 212-583-5381

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  Employees:6

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  Revenue:$1 - 10M

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  Legal Name:The Zaf Group

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• |  NAICS Code: 541611  |

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