David M. Solomon
David Michael Solomon (born c. 1962), known as DJ D-Sol, is an American investment banker and DJ. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Goldman Sachs, a position he has held since October 2018. He has also been chairman of the bank since January 2019.[2] Before assuming his role as CEO, Solomon was president and chief operating officer from January 2017 to September 2018, and was joint head of the investment banking division from July 2006 to December 2016. Solomon formally succeeded Lloyd Blankfein, the previous CEO, on October 1, 2018, and was named chairman after Blankfein's retirement.[3]
This article is about the investment banker and record producer. For other people with similar names, see David Solomon (disambiguation).
David Solomon
Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs
Chairman of the board of trustees, Hamilton College
October 2018 –
July 2021 -
Solomon also recreationally creates electronic dance music (EDM).[nb 1][8] He has performed at nightclubs and music festivals around New York, Miami and The Bahamas.[9][10]
Early life and education[edit]
Solomon was born circa 1962 in Hartsdale, New York. His father, Alan Solomon, was an executive vice president of a small publishing company, and his mother, Sandra, worked as an audiology supervisor.[11] He grew up in Scarsdale, New York, where he attended Edgemont Junior-Senior High School and worked at a local Baskin-Robbins before working as a camp counselor in New Hampshire.[12][13]
Solomon attended Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and government.[14] While there, he played on the rugby team and was chairman of the college's Alpha Delta Pi chapter.[15]
Career[edit]
After graduating, he applied to Goldman Sachs for a two-year analyst position but was rejected,[16] leading him to apply to Irving Trust, which he has referred to as a "graduate school at [a] bank."[16]
Personal life[edit]
Solomon is Jewish.[66] He married Mary Elizabeth Solomon (née Coffey) in 1989 when they were both 27 years old in Bernardsville, New Jersey.[11] They divorced in early 2018.[1] He has resided in The San Remo on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City from 2002 onward.[67] He listed the apartment for $24 million in May 2016.[67] He purchased a 13,000-square-foot estate in Aspen, Colorado in 2004 for $4 million and listed it for $36 million in July 2016.[68]
In January 2018, Solomon discovered that a personal assistant had stolen around 500 bottles from his rare wine collection, among them seven from the French estate Domaine de la Romanee-Conti.[69] The personal assistant, Nicolas DeMeyer, was arrested in late January and indicted for the theft of $1.2 million worth of wine.[69][70] On October 9, 2018 Nicolas DeMeyer committed suicide by leaping to his death from the 33rd floor window of the Carlyle Hotel, minutes after he was scheduled to appear before a Manhattan judge in relation to the alleged wine theft.[71]
Solomon has served on Hamilton College's board of trustees since 2005. He was elected as chairman of the board starting July 1, 2021.[72] He is on the board of directors of the Robin Hood Foundation, a charitable organization which attempts to alleviate problems caused by poverty in New York City.[73]