LePatner also was an active volunteer, serving on Yale's Library Council and the school's “For Humanity” fundraising campaign.

Blackstone Inc.’s Wesley LePatner, a top executive in the firm’s $325 billion real estate business, was killed Monday when a gunman opened fire at the company’s Manhattan headquarters. She was 43.

At just 43, LePatner had risen to become global head of Core+ real estate and CEO of the $70 billion Blackstone Real Estate Investment Trust, a role she took on this past January after serving as COO. A Goldman Sachs alum who worked in the firm’s real estate investment group, she joined Blackstone in 2014.