Sr. Managing Director
Joseph Baratta is the Global Head of Blackstone Private Equity Strategies and a member of Blackstone’s Board of Directors. He is also a member of the firm’s Management Committee and serves on many of the firm’s investment committees.
Mr. Baratta joined Blackstone in 1998 and in 2001 he moved to London to help establish Blackstone’s corporate private equity business in Europe. Since 2012, Mr. Baratta has served as the firm’s Global Head of Private Equity and is located in New York. He currently oversees all of the firm's directly-invested private equity strategies. Mr. Baratta has been deeply involved in the execution and monitoring of many of the firm's past and current investments across multiple sectors.
He serves on the boards of Medline and Merlin. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Georgetown University where he also serves on the endowment's investment committee; is a trustee of the Tate Foundation; and serves on the board of Year Up, an organization focused on youth employment. Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Baratta was with Tinicum Incorporated and McCown De Leeuw & Company. Mr. Baratta also worked at Morgan Stanley in its mergers and acquisitions department. Mr. Baratta graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University.