Derrick Weatherspoon

Derrick Weatherspoon is a Senior Portfolio Manager in BlackRock’s Alternative Solutions Group (“ASG”), a multi-alternative investment platform with approximately $10 billion of assets under management. Within ASG, Derrick focuses on investments that accelerate positive economic outcomes for undercapitalized ethnic and minority groups within the United States. He joined BlackRock in 2021. Prior to joining BlackRock, Derrick served as a Partner and Managing Director at IMB Partners, a middle-market private equity firm focused on investments in the utility services and government agency services sectors. Prior to IMB, Derrick was a Vice President at The Carlyle Group within in its U.S. Buyout Fund, where he focused on private equity investments in the consumer, media and retail sectors, and an Associate at Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, a private equity firm focused on investments in the healthcare and technology sectors. Derrick received a B.S. in Finance from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, where he graduated with honors, and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Robert Toigo Fellow.