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Title: Managing director
Company: The Blackstone Group
Age: 36
Years with company: 8
Martin Brand will do a lot of things for his employer; just don't ask him to relocate. The Dusseldorf, Germany, native went to Oxford University to study math. He quickly discovered he did not quite fit in with the mathematician crowd, so he wound up taking a summer internship on Goldman Sachs' London swaps desk.
From there, Brand became a derivatives trader atGoldman, first in New York and then in Tokyo, but he decided that trading was too narrow for him. In 2000, he spent a year working at McKinsey & Co. in London, readying to make the transition to business school. After graduating from Harvard Business School in 2003, The Blackstone Group...