George A. Bitar

George A. Bitar is Managing Partner of Rho Acceleration, an affiliate of Rho Capital Partners, a New York based private equity firm with $2.5 billion under management and offices in New York, Palo Alto and Montreal.

Prior to joining Rho in 2013, George was co-head of Global Private Equity at BlackRock, Inc., where he built an investment team of 16 investment professionals. Prior to joining Blackrock, George co-founded and co-led Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity (“MLGPE”) from 1994 until 2009 and served on the operating and investment committees overseeing in excess of $7 billion of proprietary and investors’ capital in global leveraged buyouts.