People

[Bulk] People Bio

Retrieves key data points about specific person. This bulk call allows you to send multiple pbIds within a single API call.

post/people/bio

Request

  • Base URL
    https://api.pitchbook.com
  • URL
    https://api.pitchbook.com/people/bio
  • Auth
    API key in header Authorization

Request body

Response

OK

Example response

{
  "matched": [
    {
      "personId": "195066-01P",
      "personName": {
        "full": "John Taylor",
        "first": "John",
        "last": "Taylor",
        "middle": "M.",
        "prefix": "Mr.",
        "suffix": "JD"
      },
      "yearOfBirth": 1970,
      "biography": "Mr. John Taylor serves as Partner at Herbert Smith Freehills. He helps clients achieve the best outcome on private equity investments, including private equity real estate, infrastructure and energy. He works with investors, corporates and management teams on significant and high-profile transactions, including UK and international buyouts, mergers, acquisitions, disposals, takeovers, joint ventures, equity financing and management equity incentives. The focus of John's work is acting for private equity funds on investments and disposals. John also brings his investor-side experience to bear in acting for management teams and investee companies in relation to private equity investments.",
      "linkedInProfileUrl": "http://www.linkedin.com/in/john-taylor-b99",
      "gender": "Male",
      "primaryEntityId": "10352-44",
      "primaryEntityName": "Herbert Smith Freehills",
      "primaryEntityType": "Service Provider",
      "primaryEntityWebsite": "www.herbertsmithfreehills.com",
      "primaryPosition": "Partner",
      "primaryOffice": {
        "location": "Chicago, IL",
        "addressLine1": "69 West Monroe Street",
        "addressLine2": "Suite 190",
        "city": "Chicago",
        "stateProvince": "IL",
        "postCode": "60661",
        "country": "United States",
        "phone": "+1 (312) 902-6655",
        "fax": "+1 (312) 902-5655",
        "email": "office.email@gmail.com",
        "globalRegion": "Americas",
        "globalSubRegion": "North America"
      }
    }
  ],
  "unmatched": [
    {
      "id": "420962-68",
      "reason": "429 TOO_MANY_REQUESTS",
      "message": "{LIMIT_TYPE} rate limit exceeded. Please wait until rate limit period is renewed"
    }
  ],
  "duplicates": [
    {
      "id": "420962-68",
      "occurrence": 1
    }
  ]
}

Changes

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