Joseph Baratta

Joseph Baratta is a Senior Managing Director at Blackstone and serves as the Global Head of Blackstone Private Equity Strategies, overseeing all of the firm's directly-invested private equity strategies. He joined Blackstone in 1998 and previously led its European corporate private equity business after relocating to London in 2001. He is a member of Blackstone's Board of Directors and the firm's Management Committee, and he graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University.