By: Mario Mancini
The CEO of Goldman Sachs, the giant investment banking firm, is all business when it comes to partying. According to The New York Post, David Solomon disc jockeyed a pop music set under the name DJ D Sol at the BottleRock Napa Valley music festival on Sunday.
It was reported that is was a “Silent Disco” event, where the guests all wear headphones to listen to the jams.
The BottleRock Music Festival has recently had such distinguished artists like P!nk, Mumford and Sons, Neil Young, and Metallica, according to The New York Post and this is the second year that Solomon has appeared.
Solomon’s performance was not without controversy, as Ariel Zilber and Lydia Moynihan reported, last year, Goldman employees fumed at Solomon’s appearance, which took place just days after the banking giant announced a major COVID safety clampdown as the Delta variant was raging.
It is highly inappropriate and hypocritical for the CEO of a major company to take part in risky behaviors as a global pandemic is raging, all the whole expecting his employees to behave with decency.
“I guess the pandemic is over according to David Solomon?” one Goldman employees said sarcastically in response to Solomon’s behavior.
Solomon, according to Wikipedia, was born in 1962 and is an an American investment banker, and 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. 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.
Solomon 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. He graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and government. In college he played on the rugby team and chaired his social fraternity, Alpha Delta Phi. After graduating, he applied to Goldman Sachs for a two-year analyst position but was rejected, leading him to apply to Irving Trust, a “graduate school at [a] bank”.
