Joan Solotar

Overview

Joan Solotar is Senior Managing Director-Public Markets at Blackstone. Ms. Solotar is responsible for managing Blackstone's relationships with its public investors, industry analysts and the general investment community. She also guides the firm on analyzing strategic development opportunities and advises Blackstone fund portfolio companies on their positioning in the public equity markets. Prior to joining Blackstone in 2007, Ms. Solotar was most recently a Managing Director and Head of Equity Research at Bank of America, which she joined in 2003. She started her career in equity research at The First Boston Corporation and prior to joining Bank of America was part of the financial services team at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and later with CSFB as a Managing Director. Ms. Solotar was ranked each year from 1995 to 2002 in the Brokers and Asset Management category on the Institutional Investor All-America Research Team, and consistently ranked highly in the Greenwich Survey of portfolio managers. She also served as Chairperson of the Research Committee for the Securities Industry Association in 2001-2002. She is currently on the Board of Directors of the East Harlem Tutorial Program.